The government has announced a new Olympic Pathway Programme to provide focused support for Singapore's top athletes at the 2012 London Olympic Games.

Athletes who are medal potentials, or who show potential for significant achievement at the London Games, will have their training and development plans charted. They will also receive sports medicine and science support.

The first batch of athletes to be considered for the programme are:

  • Table tennis – Feng Tian Wei, Wang Yue Gu, Sun Bei Bei, Yu Meng Yu
  • Swimming – Tao Li
  • Shooting – Jasmine Ser

More athletes may be added to the programme subsequently.

Calling the programme an "additional support mechanism", Mr Teo Ser Luck, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for the sports ministry, added that he hoped it would "provide more motivation for our athletes to fulfil their Olympic ambitions and realise our vision of developing a sports institute to groom more elite athletes."

The Singapore Sports Council will continue with its existing high performance programmes for national athletes participating in other games like the Asian, Commonwealth and Southeast Asian Games.

The Olympic Pathway Programme will be overseen by a Steering Committee and assisted by three sub-committees

Chairman
Teo Ser Luck
Senior Parliamentary Secretary,
Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports and Ministry of Transport

Members

Ng Ser Miang
Executive Board Member, International Olympic Committee & Vice President,
Singapore National Olympic Council

Dr Benedict Tan
Head (Changi Sports Medicine Centre), Changi General Hospital

Alex Chan
Chairman, Singapore Sports Council

Niam Chiang Meng
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports

Chew Hock Yong
Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports

Oon Jin Teik
Chief Executive Officer, Singapore Sports Council

Chris Chan
Secretary General, Singapore National Olympic Council

Ms Sum Chee Wah
Director, Education Programmes, Ministry of Education

Koh Peng Keng
Director, Sports Division, Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports

Mrs Deborah Tan
Principal, Singapore Sports School

Presidents of National Sports Associations of athletes in Olympic Pathway Programme

Identification Sub-Committee
Chairman – Ng Ser Miang
Deputy Chairman – Dr Tan Eng Liang, Vice President, Singapore National Olympic Council

Training and Development Sub-Committee
Chairman – Teo Ser Luck
Deputy Chairman – Oon Jin Teik

Sports Medicine and Sports Science Sub-Committee
Chairman – Dr Benedict Tan
Deputy Chairman – Dr Teh Kong Chuan, Co-Chairman Sports Medicine Sub-Specialty Training Committee