Charm offensive is what sponsors seek from sports ambassadors
Singapore
IT was way back in the 1960s when former national sprinter and rugby player Natahar Bava was offered a contract to advertise for a balm to help relieve muscle aches. The former athlete, a podium finisher at the 1965 and 1967 South-east Asia Peninsular Games and 1966 Asian Games, decided to turn down the offer.
It would have affected his amateur status, ruling Bava - who later became a recognised rugby coach - out of many subsequent international competitions.
