National diving queen Pandelela Rinong is not in action in the FINA Grand Prix diving championship that is taking place at the Sarawak Aquatics Centre in Petra Jaya here.

She said that she will only resume competition at the FINA World Diving Championship in Beijing in March next year.

"I am still having back trouble... the pain has been around for sometime and because I have not have had enough rest and proper treatment it keeps coming back," she told reporters here Friday.

She said that for now she was only doing light training and would only begin intensive training in January. -- Bernama