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Jolidon to take legal action against MNCF

SWISS coach Jacques Jolidon yesterday claimed his lawyers would, by the end of this week, be pursuing legal action against the Malaysian National Cycling Federation (MNCF) over his claims for a job as head coach.

In stating there would be no further comments from him after this, Jolidon said he would also be seeking damages, apart from reimbursement of more than RM75,000 in expenses that he had made previously.

"The money requested on procedure will be much, much more than what I ask now, for a fair solution to the damages made to me and my family," said Jolidon in an e-mail to Timesport.

In that e-mail, Jolidon also attached a word document which contained excerpts of e-mails between himself and three MNCF officials -- president Abu Samah Wahab, assistant treasurer Yunus Ibrahim and council member Omar Saad.

These excerpts were made available upon a previous request, as the basis of Jolidon's allegations are about his claims that he had received confirmation via e-mail that he had been hired in May last year as head coach of the national road team.
The correspondence revealed in that document happened between April 30 and Sept 22 last year.

The poor English written by all four parties involved in the correspondence made it difficult to decipher the exact meaning of all the copied e-mails.

But an excerpt, claimed to be from from Abu Samah, dated Sept 22 read: "However, we will discussed and finalised this matter in the Working Committee with National Sports Council (NSC) later this month. Please bare with us. Thank you."

This bears reason to believe the hiring of Jolidon had not necessarily been completed by Sept 22, a stand that the federation has maintained since the issue began hitting the headlines.

MNCF has maintained that there had been no legal agreement or contract signed between Jolidon and itself.

"I asked for a meeting with them since more than two months ago but nobody has ever answered me," said Jolidon, who has been in Malaysia with his family for six months, alleging he had been hired via e-mail by MNCF.

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