Five days after the fateful mass brawl incident between Young Lions and Beijing Guoan Talent FC, representatives from both teams met up for the first time for a luncheon session at Carousel, a restaurant located in Park Royal on Scotts.
The Singapore Slingers beat the Rain or Shine of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) 97-72 last Sunday. Five new local players came off the bench — Tan Chin Hong, Ng Hanbin, Gary Koh, Brian Tan and Teo Chun Hoe.
131 Singaporean youths took part in 26 events at the Youth Olympic Games and the contingent brought home two silver and six bronze medals. There were many notable moments of sweat, sacrifice and grit. Here are seven that stood out.
After the heartbreaking 0-2 semi-final defeat to the Haitians, heads went down and team morale sank to an all-time low.
“So close, yet so far.” That was what Singapore Table Tennis Federation (STTF) president Lee Bee Wah said after Singapore’s duo of Isabelle Li and Clarence Chew's bid to win Singapore’s first Youth Olympic Games (YOG) gold medal was ended in cruel fashion with a tough 1-2 loss to Japan in the mixed team quarter-finals.
Despite a 1-3 loss to Egypt in the fifth and sixth place playoff and finishing last out of six countries, the Singapore girls’ volleyball team put up a strong fight against the African nation in front of the 1,100-strong crowd in the Youth Olympic Games.
In the second leg of the fifth and sixth placing match between Singapore and the Cook Islands, the Singapore handball boys emerged victorious with an aggregate score of 59-38. They won both legs of the tie to finish fifth in the competition.
Singapore’s mixed duo of Isabelle Li and Clarence Chew managed to avoid an upset by coming from behind to beat Intercontinental 2 2-1 in their first match of the first stage in the Mixed Team Event.