As turmoil engulfed the Singapore Taekwondo Federation (STF) earlier this year, national taekwondo captain Raja Zulfadli Raja Mahmod feared that his decade-long career was over.
With just six months to the SEA Games in the Philippines, the athletes were worried that they would be left in limbo when the STF was suspended by international governing body World Taekwondo (WT) and the Singapore National Olympic Council (SNOC) in May.
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