Singapore finished the tournament with a 4-2 win-loss record. Apart from Indonesia, they also beat Thailand (76-67), Laos (131-22), and Vietnam (92-32). They lost to the Philippines (43-69) and Malaysia (47-76).
Zheng Wen, who turns 20 on September 29, was granted his first deferment for the lead up to the 2016 Rio Olympics.
All budgets, no matter how generous, have their limits. If there are only funds for 10 athletes, the 11th will suffer the cut. If there are enough for 100, the 101st athlete feels the pain. Whose funding should you cut to give Joseph Schooling or Yip Pin Xiu more?
In the last 10 years, Singapore age-group football teams have a winning percentage of 25.6 percent in 125 matches played, losing 52 percent of the time. They scored a total of 172 goals and conceded 242.
The good people at Tote Board and Singapore Pools agreed to offer the prize money of S$1 million after the Singapore National Olympic Council came up with the idea.
Pin Xiu is the first Singaporean to win two gold medals at a single Paralympics.
Perhaps we should all pause from time to time, a pause long enough to ask each other, "How are you?"
When the two teams last met in Round 1, Northbrooks had won 5-2. Northbrooks went the entire season undefeated before enduring their first defeat in the final.
