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	<title>The Singapore Sports Fan Says...</title>
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	<description>I've been a keen observer of the Singapore sports scene for almost 30 years. This is my platform to share my thoughts with you on the current developments in the scene</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Erm, there were four other swimmers besides Tao Li in the Singapore squad too, you know?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bryan Tay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Singapore loses 0-3 to China but wins first Olympic medal in 48 years</title>
		<link>http://singaporesportsfan.wordpress.com/2008/08/17/singapore-loses-0-3-to-china-but-wins-first-olympic-medal-in-48-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[tabe tennis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Singapore finally laid its hands tonight on the Olympic medal that it had been waiting to win for 48 years.
Our national women&#8217;s table tennis team had virtually assured itself of the silver medal at the very least when it defeated South Korea 3-2 in the semi-finals on Friday.
Tonight, after waiting for 48 hours, they finally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who is Feng Tianwei? Here&#8217;s some info on her&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://singaporesportsfan.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/who-is-feng-tianwei-heres-some-info-on-her/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My comments:
I found many search efforts on this blog to find out who Feng Tianwei is soon after she won the match that helped Singapore to beat South Korea 3-2 in the Beijing Olympics women&#8217;s table tennis team semi-final. The result virtually assures a silver medal for Singapore at the very least, and breaks our country&#8217;s 48-year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women paddlers break our 48-year Olympic medal drought</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The news:
This is for those of you who have been wondering and searching the net for the news. Singapore has done it - it has virtually assured itself of at least the silver in the women&#8217;s table tennis team competition.
The team of Li Jia Wei, Wang Yuegu and Feng Tianwei beat South Korea 3-2 in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newsflash: Calvin finishes sixth in Olympics 100m heat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Athletics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[National sprinter Calvin Kang could not find the accelerator this morning as the 18-year-old finished sixth in his 100m heat in 10.73sec.
The time was 0.2sec slower than the national junior record of 10.53sec which he set at the Asian Junior Athletics Championships in Jakarta in June.
It was hoped that running alongside Athens Games silver medalist Francis Obikwelu [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newsflash: Calvin to race against Walter Dix and Francis Obikwelu in 100m heat</title>
		<link>http://singaporesportsfan.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/newsflash-calvin-to-race-against-walter-dix-and-francis-obikwelu-in-100m-heat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[



National sprinter Calvin Kang will find himself rubbing shoulders with US sprinter Walter Dix and Olympic silver medallist Francis Obikwelu during his 100m heat at the Beijing Olympics tomorrow morning (10.33am).
 
The 18-year-old Singapore Sports School graduate was given a wildcard entry to the Games by the Singapore Athletics Association after setting a national junior record [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newsflash: Tao Li sets new 200m butterfly national record but does not qualify for semis</title>
		<link>http://singaporesportsfan.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/newsflash-tao-li-sets-new-200m-butterfly-national-record-but-does-not-qualify-for-semis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Epilogue: Interesting facts about Tao Li&#8217;s 100m butterfly times</title>
		<link>http://singaporesportsfan.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/epilogue-interesting-facts-about-tao-lis-100m-butterfly-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newsflash: Tao Li finishes fifth in Olympics final</title>
		<link>http://singaporesportsfan.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/newsflash-tao-li-finishes-fifth-in-olympics-final/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[National swimmer Tao Li&#8217;s gallant effort to win Singapore&#8217;s first Olympic medal since 1960 did not come to fruition this morning as she finished fifth in the Women&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newsflash: Tao Li qualifies for 100m butterfly final</title>
		<link>http://singaporesportsfan.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/newsflash-tao-li-qualifies-for-100m-butterfly-final/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[National swimmer Tao Li continued her sensational form in the Beijing Olympics this morning by setting yet another national record and becoming the first Singapore swimmer to qualify for a swimming final.
Coached by Australian Peter Churchill, the 18-year-old Singapore Sports School student, who was considered a dark horse in the Republic&#8217;s hopeful efforts to break its [...]]]></description>
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