Singapore Bodybuilding Federation delisted by Singapore Sports Council

The Singapore Sports Council (SSC) has announced that the Singapore Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation's (SBBF) National Sports Association (NSA) status has been revoked.

The revocation is in response to the recent developments in SBBF, which had called into question its ability and credibility to carry out its responsibilities and obligations as the national governing body for the sport of bodybuilding.

Earlier this year, SSC asked the SBBF to explain a number of controversies, including doping at the Singapore National Bodybuilding and Physique Sports Championships, de-afilliation by the Singapore National Olympic Council and "other governance matters".

SBBF failed to respond by the given deadline of 30th April with Federation Presideent Rano Izhar Rahmat, not providing the SSC with satisfactory reasons for not making the requested response.

SSC said it then concluded that SBBF could "no longer represent or serve the interest of the sport and its athletes in the capacity of a national governing body".

Explaining the move, SSC Chief of Sports Development Group Bob Gambardella stated "the leadership of SBBF has consistently shown its inability to lead the sport of bodybuilding morally and operationally.

"The blatant doping violations and administrative incompetence has caused fragmentation within the bodybuilding fraternity.

"This decision is made to start to restore credibility and to rebuild the sport of bodybuilding."

Earlier this month the SSC found the bodybuilding association guilty of breaching an agreement to adopt, abide and implement anti-doping rules set by Anti-Doping Singapore (ADS).

SBBF had allowed bodybuilder Shaifulhaq Bin Ahmad Ishak to join a competition in late June even though he was in the middle of a two-year sports ban for doping in 2012.