No competition, and world champ Ziyad is restless


Keep the flag flying: Ziyad Zolkefli (left) and NSC director-general Datuk Ahmad Shapawi Ismail posing for a photograph at the National Sports Council Merdeka Day countdown. — S.S. KANESAN/The Star

PETALING JAYA: A lack of competition is making two-time world para shot putt champion Ziyad Zolkefli restless and worried.

If things had gone as planned, Ziyad would now have been in Tokyo to bid to defend his Paralympic title but the Games had to be postponed to next year because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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