Entries from August 2004

August 5, 2004

From Swatow to Chinatown to Olympic Glory (The Straits Times, 5 August 2004)

But Singapore’s only Olympic medallist wants to be left alone in his gym

BY TAY CHENG KHOON
 
EVERY four years, we drag Tan Howe Liang out of his National Stadium gym, wanting him to relive that glorious September evening when he won a silver weightlifting medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics.
 
But Howe Liang’s now 71 years old [...]