Singapore, Jan. 19 -- There were happy and relieved faces at the Singapore Masters Athletics (SMA) annual general meeting (AGM) on Friday night, after an election of its leaders suggested that its recent woes were coming to an end.

But the five-month saga, which saw the SMA provisionally suspended by Singapore Athletics (SA) for what was deemed a violation of its tasks, appears to be far from over as SMA deputy president Samuel Veera Singaram called the AGM "invalid and unconstitutional".

Its president Glory Barnabas, who like Veera, did not attend the AGM, has also threatened to take the matter to the courts.

The infighting between the two camps then took another twist that same evening as SA announced that it would "take over Master...