Joseph Schooling ‘not even close’ to nearing his best
SINGAPORE - Sitting comfortably in a chair as a make-up artist readied him for an appearance on MediaCorp'sThe 5 Show two weeks ago, Joseph Schooling kept nodding off. It was hardly surprising. This...
View ArticleS’pore swim team start SEA Games campaign with two golds
SINGAPORE - The first day of the 28th South-east Asian (SEA) Games swimming competition saw four new SEA Games records set at the OCBC Aquatic Centre on Saturday evening (June 6). Hosts Singapore, the...
View ArticleSEA Games: Sweet revenge for netballers
SINGAPORE - Backed by a vociferous home crowd, Singapore's national netball team clinched their first-ever South-east Asian (SEA) Games gold medal at the OCBC Arena today (June 7) after a nail-biting...
View ArticleM’sian diving star doesn’t stop, even when it hurts
SINGAPORE - As one of the biggest names headlining the 28th SEA Games diving competition, Pandelela Rinong knows many rivals are eyeing her place as the sport's poster girl in the region. However, if...
View ArticleNearly a dream start for Chan
SINGAPORE - Diver Jonathan Chan may have won the bronze medal in the men's 10m individual platform yesterday (June 8), but he was ultimately left to rue a poor performance in his fifth round that...
View ArticleNearly a dream start for Chan
SINGAPORE - Diver Jonathan Chan (picture) may have won the bronze medal in the men's 10m individual platform yesterday, but he was ultimately left to rue a poor performance in his fifth round that...
View ArticleSEA Games: Schooling breaks 33-year-old national record
SINGAPORE - Joseph Schooling added another two gold medals to his prize haul today (June 8), winning the 50m freestyle and 200m butterfly in, yet again, record-breaking timings. Schooling's time of...
View ArticleSEA Games: Malaysia’s next poster boy for diving
SINGAPORE - While Pandelela Rinong, Malaysia's first Olympic diving medallist, is her country's undisputed dive queen, compatriot Ooi Tze Liang is fast-rising as the male equivalent. While all eyes...
View Article52 GOLDS — and Team Singapore’s not done yet
SINGAPORE - Only four days after the 28th SEA Games officially opened, host Singapore have won 52 gold medals, surpassing the Republic's previous record haul of 50 at the 1993 Games and delivering an...
View ArticleAnother bountiful day at the pool for S’pore
SINGAPORE - It was a historic day for Singapore swimming at the 28th SEA Games yesterday as Tao Li won the country's 50th gold medal - the target set for this edition of that Games - before her...
View ArticleSEA Games: Different strokes for different folks
SINGAPORE - While Joseph Schooling took his seventh and eighth gold medals yesterday at the SEA Games competitions, Vietnam's own swimming phenomenon Nguyen Thi Anh Vien is hot on his heels to emerge...
View ArticleGender test calls for volleyballer rejected
SINGAPORE - Any doubts over her gender may have been quashed by the SEA Games Federation (SEAGF) medical committee, but Indonesian women's volleyball player Aprilia Manganang has revealed the...
View ArticleS’pore swim team exceeded expectations: Lopez
SINGAPORE - With the World Championships in August and the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro exactly a year after that, Singapore national swim team head coach Sergio Lopez believes the current team...
View ArticleJoseph Schooling, a legend in the making
SINGAPORE - Over the years, Singapore has seen pre-eminent swimmers such as golden girl Patricia Chan who ruled the pool in the 1960s, Ang Peng Siong who first put Singapore on the world map in the...
View ArticleSEA Games: Schooling the field
SINGAPORE - When Joseph Schooling effortlessly clocked a personal best to finish first in his 100m freestyle heats this morning (June 7), there was never doubt that he would stand the tallest on the...
View ArticleSEA Games: It’s all in the mind
SINGAPORE - When Spaniard Sergio Lopez came on board as Singapore's national swimming head coach in January, he made a bold claim that he would turn the small city-state into one of the top swimming...
View ArticleSEA Games: Young Jodie wins sailing gold
SINGAPORE - Fourteen-year-old Jodie Lai has clinched the gold medal for Singapore in the female (under-16) optimist class at the 28th South-east Asian (SEA) Games sailing competition. Jodie,...
View ArticleSEA Games: Gold for Choy and Yeo in men’s 470 class
SINGAPORE - National sailors Darren Choy and Jeremiah Yeo have clinched the gold medal for Singapore in the men's double-handed 470 class at the at the 28th South-east Asian (SEA) Games sailing...
View ArticleSEA Games: S’pore squash players put up valiant fight for silver
SINGAPORE - It's a silver medal for Singapore in the men's team squash event, as the Republic's national squash players lost 2-0 to Malaysia in the final this afternoon (June 13) at the Kallang Squash...
View ArticleSEA Games: Women’s floorball takes gold in nail-biter
SINGAPORE - The Singapore women's floorball team took gold by beating Thailand 2-1 on penalties at ITE College Central today (June 14). The full-time score was 3-3. The men's floorball final is...
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