Singapore will field its largest away contingent of 569 athletes for a Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur this August. The athletes will take part in 35 sports at the 29th SEA Games. Four sports – cricket, ice hockey, ice skating, and indoor hockey – will be contested for the first time at the Games.
What may surprise some is the number of boys' floorball teams. The sport of floorball has exploded in the last 10 years or so.
Singapore lost 0-3 to Indonesia in both Men's and Women's category of the first round-robin game in the Team Table Tennis event.
The fourth edition of the Singapore Youth Olympic Festival was officially launched by Minister for Social and Family Development and president of the SNOC Tan Chuan-Jin earlier today.
Unlike the closely fought women's match, the Singapore men were too strong for their Vietnamese counterparts.
Thailand put up a strong fight but they could not match the Singapore women, who were playing before a strong home crowd that also featured President Tony Tan Keng Yam and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
Following his success in the men's doubles, Gao Ning earned his second gold medal in the men's singles with a 4–1 victory over Richard Gonzales of the Philippines.
Yu Mengyu and Yang Zi beat Thailand 4–0 to clinch the gold medal, while Zhou Yihan and Li Hu went down to the latter in the semi-finals to clinch the joint-bronze medal.
