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 [...]
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August 19, 2008
Erm, there were four other swimmers besides Tao Li in the Singapore squad too, you know?
August 12, 2008
Epilogue: Interesting facts about Tao Li’s 100m butterfly times
Just did some research: it seems that the two personal best times that Tao Li set during her heats and semi-finals are better than the gold-medal winning time at the 2004 Athens Games.
Four years ago, Australian Petria Thomas took the 100m butterfly gold in 57.84sec.
Tao Li clocked 57.77sec in her heat, an Asian record which [...]
August 11, 2008
Newsflash: Tao Li finishes fifth in Olympics final
National swimmer Tao Li’s gallant effort to win Singapore’s first Olympic medal since 1960 did not come to fruition this morning as she finished fifth in the Women’s 100m butterfly final at the Water Cube National Aquatics Centre in Beijing.
The plucky 18-year-old finished fifth in the event in 57.99sec, about 1.26sec behind eventual champion Libby Trickett [...]
