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
Newsflash: Tao Li sets new 200m butterfly national record but does not qualify for semis
National swimmer Tao Li ended her maiden Olympics adventure on a high note this evening when she set a new national record during her 200m butterfly heat at the Water Cube.
The 18-year-old Singapore Sports School student clocked 2min 12.63sec as she finished fifth in her race to break her two-month-old national record of 2:13.20. However, the [...]
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 [...]
