Entries Tagged as ‘SEA Games’

August 19, 2008

Erm, there were four other swimmers besides Tao Li in the Singapore squad too, you know?

All our country’s newspapers were filled today with stories and photographs of swimming Tao Li returning from her triumphant Beijing Olympics campaign yesterday morning. And yes, she deserves the limelight after her extraordinary and history-making performances in the pool.
 
She not only became the first Singaporean swimmer to qualify for an Olympic swimming final -100m butterfly [...]

August 1, 2008

Who else after Calvin, Amanda and Balpreet? Well, here are three other names to track

The report:
TODAY reported on the contrasting fortunes of rising young sprinters Shahrir Mohd Anuar and Habibah Najihahbi in their respective 100m finals at the 11th Thailand Sports School Games. Shahrir was pipped to the gold in the Boys U-16 final in a controversial photo finish. He finished in 11.11secs, 0.01sec behind the Thai victor. Habibah, [...]

July 25, 2008

Newsflash: Rachel Lee wins Singapore’s second silver at World C’ships

Singapore ended its Optimist World Sailing Championships campaign in Turkey yesterday with two silvers as 14-year-old Rachel Lee finished second in the Girls Division yesterday.
The Singapore Sports School student who won the bronze in the same event at last year’s World Championships, went a rung higher this time as she finished with 176 points, behind Japan’s Tomoyo [...]