Soh Rui Yong Loses Defamation Suit To Ashley Liew

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Soh Rui Yong loses defamation suit to Ashley Liew,

required to pay $180,000 in damages
Wan Ting Koh · Senior Reporter
Thu, 23 September 2021, 10:37 am · 7-min read
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fellow athlete Ashley Liew and will be required to pay
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statements in the future.
Liew, a 34-year-old chiropractor and Singapore

athlete, had sued Soh, 30, over statements that the
latter made which accused Liew of lying about
slowing down during the 2015 SEA Games men’s
marathon in order to give his competitors – who had
made a wrong turn – a chance to catch up to him.
Soh won a gold medal for the marathon.
According to Liew, on 7 June 2015, he had slowed

down after a U-turn at the 5.5km mark at East Coast
Park to wait for 11 other male participants, including
Soh, who had mistakenly missed the turn. Soh had
claimed that Liew did not make such a move.
After the alleged act went public, Liew was awarded a

special award for sportsmanship by the Singapore
National Olympic Council, as well as the Pierre de
Coubertin World Fair Play trophy by the International
Fair Play Committee (IFPC).
However, from 2015 to 2019, Soh made several online

statements disputing the act on various posts and
comments posted on his Facebook Page and profile,
Instagram account, blog and IFPC's Facebook. Soh
suggested that Liew had lied about the act and did
not deserve the IFPC award.
Soh failed to prove the allegations: Judge
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credibility and mean that, contrary to Liew’s
recognition for his sportsmanship, he is in fact a liar,
a dishonourable person who had conjured up a tale
to make himself feel better, and by receiving an
award for something that did not happen, he is a
person who lacks integrity."
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Marathoner Soh Rui Yong made

defamatory comments about rival
to gain online followers: lawyer
Marathoner Soh Rui Yong started

'unprovoked' row over competitor's
sportsmanship: lawyer
Singapore marathoner Ashley Liew

sought to glorify himself over
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