Skateboarding, sport climbing, BMX, 3×3 basketball are now Olympic sports – what should Singapore do?
Over 200 participants took the opportunity to discuss urban youth sports at the Youth Athlete Development Conference.
Quah Zheng Wen gets NS deferred until after 2020 Olympics
Zheng Wen, who turns 20 on September 29, was granted his first deferment for the lead up to the 2016 Rio Olympics.
If you could decide, how would you allocate public funds for sports?
All budgets, no matter how generous, have their limits. If there are only funds for 10 athletes, the 11th will suffer the cut. If there are enough for 100, the 101st athlete feels the pain. Whose funding should you cut to give Joseph Schooling or Yip Pin Xiu more?
Minister Grace Fu: “The Government has committed over $40m over five years starting from 2013 for spexScholarships”
Ms Grace Fu, the Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, gives an overview of the government's support for sports.
S’pore Sports School one of only 12 schools in world to offer elite student-athletes more time to complete IB diploma
This will give a selected group of student-athletes who are representing Singapore at major games much needed flexibility to complete their IB diploma at a different pace from their cohort.
“I ran my first marathon in 1997. I have done two” – an interview with Lawrence Wong (Part 8)
Minister Lawrence Wong shares his motivation to run the marathon and his running PBs.
On sporting trends and impact of cable sports television – an interview with Lawrence Wong (Part 7)
"We see also the trend where, and this is not just in Singapore but also globally, sports participation is rising, but a lot more of it happens individually then in teams," said Minister Wong.
“We give funding beyond athletes who can get medals” – an interview with Lawrence Wong (Part 6)
"The design of the system is to create a base for all athletes and then we progressively increase support. The more the athletes get, the higher the level of the performance," said Minister Wong.