At their home Olympics in 2012, Great Britain, with 541 athletes, won 29 gold, and 65 medals in total, to finish third on the medal table. While countries will fade away after a home games, remarkably, the British went to Rio in 2016, and with a smaller contingent of 366 athletes, won 27 gold, and two more medals in total, to finish second.
We have all seen it before – two boys of the same age but one is much bigger than the other. Why? The rate of biological maturation – the two boys grow at different rates. The result? The early developer is usually chosen for the school team over the late developer.
After seven months of consultation with some 2500 people from the public, private and people sectors, the Vision 2030 Committee released its preliminary recommendations on how sport can be a key strategy to serve Singapore.
In 2001, the Committee on Sporting Singapore (CoSS) marked a tectonic shift in the government‘s position on sport. CoSS boldly called for extraordinary levels of policy support, programming and funding from a whole-of-government platform.
Vision 2030 is neither a beginning nor an end for Sporting Singapore. It is a renewal of our government‘s commitment to sport. Moreover, it is a clarion call for our population, as individuals and communities, to make their voices heard on where we need to go in future.
Under a new initiative called 'Vision 2030‘, the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) and the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) will work with the Public-Private-People sectors to jointly develop proposals on how sport can best serve Singapore‘s future needs.
In a joint ceremony for both the Commonwealth Games 2010 and Asian Games 2010 contingents, 43 Team Singapore medallists were presented with cash awards totalling S$4.22 million at the Multi-Million Dollar Award Programme (MAP) dinner this evening.
The National Stadium has seen its final sunset, as the last remaining structures of what used to be the home of Singapore's many sporting memories are gradually torn down.
