By Tan Yo-Hinn
JUST hours after Tuesday night’s Singapore Sports Awards, where they were :crowned Team of the Year (events) in the junior category for their exploits in 2007,
Justin Liu and Sherman Cheng underlined their potential by finishing second in the 29er class at the prestigious Kiel Regatta in Germany yesterday morning. .
However, the [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 26, 2008
Double joy for Liu, Cheng (TODAY, 26 June 2008)
June 25, 2008
Singapore gets sailing boost for YOG (The Straits Times, 25 June 2008)
By Jeanette Wang
THE inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG) may still be two years away, but host Singapore has received a boost to its medal hopes.
Yesterday, it learnt that the International Sailing Federation (Isaf) chose the Byte CII for the one-person dinghy event and the Bic Techno 293 for windsurfing for boys and girls.
Singapore [...]
June 22, 2008
Have a 20 percent cap on all Foreign Sports Talents (The Sunday Times, 22 June 2008)
The letter:
I have a poser for my fellow Singaporeans. Our women’s table tennis national team comprise virtually China-born Foreign Sports Talents (FSTs) and some have derisively labelled them as ‘China Team B’.
Suppose the team, heavily tipped to clinch a medal at the upcoming Olympics, did just that. Will we adore them as much as [...]
June 18, 2008
Underaged athletes caught drinking (The Straits Times, 18 June 2008)
By Leonard Lim
A STORM is brewing within the athletics fraternity, after some unsavoury events at a regional meet in Phuket last month.
A team official caught several Singapore athletes, most of them under 18 years of age, consuming alcohol at the end of the two-day South-east Asia Junior Championships.
There are also allegations that the [...]
June 12, 2008
Must do better (TODAY, 12 June 2008 )
By Low Lin Fhoong
AT THE Sydney Olympics in 2000, paddler Jing Junhong finished fourth in the women’s singles event, and four years later in Athens, Li Jiawei came close to ending Singapore’s Olympic medal drought when she finished in fourth spot.
The women’s table tennis team kicks off its Beijing Olympic campaign in August, [...]
