News and developments in Singapore sports
Youth Olympic Games – watching history unfold
Singapore wins bid to host first Youth Olympic Games in 2010
The long wait is finally over, and the vote has gone Singapore’s way. Beginning with a field of eleven cities, the competition to host the first-ever Youth Olympic Games was narrowed down to five cities in November 2007, then further reduced to Singapore and Moscow in January 2008.
Singapore wins friends and Youth Olympic Games 2010
On this night, Thursday, February 21, 2008, at 7 p.m., a day that will live long in the memory of the 9,000 people who were at the Padang and the hundreds of thousands more watching at home on television, the world witnessed an improbable fact, that tiny little Singapore had more friends than Moscow, the largest city in Europe and the capital of Russia.
U-16 footballers get a shot at visiting Euro 2008 with adidas +challenge
A football tournament starting on March 8, 2008 will give the winning Under-16 boys team a shot at representing Singapore at a global championship in Vienna, Austria. Austria is one of the host countries along with Switzerland.
Work starts on Singapore’s Youth Olympic Village for 2010
Singapore, February 1, 2008 – Construction work for the University [...]
Foreign sporting talent – help or hindrance?
China-born athlete Dong Enxin disappeared without a trace recently, leaving the Singapore Athletics Association (SAA) poorer by $300,000, the amount spent on the athlete over a period of 10 years.
What would you do with a $10,000 hong bao?
Save it, say Singapore’s elite athletes. At least, that’s what some SEA Games gold medallists said, when Red Sports asked what they would do with their cash awards, an early hong bao they received at an awards ceremony held last week to honour gold medallists.