PETALING JAYA: Malaysian polo player Datuk Moiz Ali Moiz has been stripped of the gold medal he won at the Korat SEA Games after being tested positive for a banned substance.
In December last year, the polo team were on a high after winning the country’s last gold medal in the biennial Games. It was Malaysia’s 68th gold medal – making it the best-ever medal haul outside of country.
The rest of the Malaysian polo team, however, can keep their gold medals and the medal tally stands for Malaysia.
Moiz, who was a reserve in the six-member team and who had been found guilty of flouting the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) rules, blamed the positive test on a medication he took for gout.
“I was called to attend a hearing by the OCM (Olympic Council of Malaysia) and was informed that I had tested positive for a banned substance contained in a medication called Probanacid. I have been taking Probanacid daily for the past 25 years to treat my gout,” said Moiz in a press statement yesterday.
“Prior to the Games, I had given a list of all my medications to my team manager so that he could declare them to the relevant authorities. However, due to certain administrative miscommunication, the medical declaration, for myself and all the other polo team members, was not submitted.”
OCM secretary general Datuk Sieh Kok Chi said Moiz would not have gotten into trouble if the Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) forms, pertaining to his medication, had been submitted earlier.
“Polo is not a mainstream sport and, I guess, they were not around when we had meetings regarding dope test and did not know about the requirement to notify the organisers if they are taking some form of medication. He is not entirely to be blamed,” said Kok Chi.
Kok Chi advised athletes seeking medical treatment from the National Sports Institute (NSI) to inform them (NSI) about other medicines that they take.
Moiz was among five athletes tested positive for banned substances in Korat.
The others were Thailand’s Olympic boxing bronze medallist Suriya Prasathinpimai and volleyball player Supachai Jitchamroon, Vietnam’s woman boxer Dinh Thi Phoung Thanh and Filipina Ativeza Marcasia (women’s heptathlon).
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