The Youth Olympic Games are just around the corner and 130 Singaporean athletes will do battle in the red and white of Singapore. So feel free to express your best wishes to the athletes, especially if they are your teammates or your schoolmate, if they are your brother or your sister, if they are your son or your daughter.
Following the recent $2.5 million pledge by the government to develop Satellite Centres for Sports Development (SCSDs), the Singapore Sports Council’s (SSC) Let’s Play movement was given further impetus with the commencement of operations of three SCSDs this weekend.
The Singapore National Olympic Council (SNOC) announced a second list of 22 athletes who will represent Singapore at the upcoming Youth Olympic Games.
Youth sports in Singapore received a huge boost today when the Singapore Youth Sports Development (SYSD) committee unveiled its plans to have up to 26 Satellite Centres for Sports Development set up for selected sports that will be featured at the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games over the next two years.
Singapore will see some 600 athletes from more than 20 countries competing in the Friendship Games – a series of national and international level competitions in the month of January.
The men's 4x100m relay team broke the national record in finishing in 39.82 seconds in second place, part of a 1 gold, 7 silver and 1 bronze haul on the penultimate day of the 25th SEA Games.
Discus thrower James Wong bagged his eighth gold medal in the discipline when he won Team Singapore's only gold medal on day eight of competition at the 25th South East Asian (SEA) Games in Laos.
Singapore’s first-ever mass wrestling competition, the Chinatrust Charity King/Queen of the Mat 2009, will be held at the Wrestling Federation of Singapore’s (WFS) new training facility on 7-8 December and will feature participants from all walks of life competing in the name of charity.