STF did not send any participants as it was still reorganising its activities and had not registered all exponents as required by the Martial Art Control Unit.
[8] On 9 January 1975, it was reported in the New Nation that all black belt holders had to be registered with the federation, and have their certificates verified.
In the same news article, all taekwondo clubs had to be registered with the federation as a pre-requisite to their registration with the Controller of Martial Arts.
The column containing data was minimised in a publicly available, unprotected Excel spreadsheet file for the 2017 Inter-School Taekwondo Championships.
However, this invitation did not sit well with the then-second vice-president Lee Chee Wee and committee member Yeo Soon Keong.
[13] On or around 22 October, Sport Singapore's chief executive officer, Lim Teck Yin, expressed concerns about the sudden management change and stated that the situation was being monitored closely.
[14] On 24 March 2019, in an interview with Mothership, Ng Ming Wei, a national taekwondo athlete with several wins at international competitions revealed that most of his training activities and equipment were funded by his parents, while had faced "uphill battle getting support from the STF".
They alleged that Wong's feedback was being too generic, and the STF officials made them spend training time on non-training matters.
[22] The SNOC immediately established a major Games preparation committee to manage the national squad selection and training.
[25] The same day, WT named Wong Liang Ming and Lim Teong Chin who were the then secretary-general and general manager respectively as having breached parts of its codes of ethics.
[26][27] The next day on the 11 May, Raja Zulfadli filed a police report against Wong, alleging that she compelled him to show her a group chat between him, other athletes and SNOC on his phone.
[27] In October, Edwin Lee, a veteran sports administrator was elected as the president of STF to help restore the standing of the federation.