Thirteen year-old Sarah Afiqah Rodgers, a Singaporean living in Scotland has won a Bronze medal in the Ladies Novice event at the British Ice Figure and Synchronized Skating Championships 2008/09 in Nottingham, England. … [visit site to read more]

Alexandria Wong of Methodist Girls’ School is a figure skater and a runner. The 14-year-old athlete will be in Secondary 3 in 2008 loves nature, adding to the pleasure of her cross-country training through woods and trails. Her sporting exploits have put her into the final round of the Singapore Sports Idol contest. Red Sports recently caught up with her for an interview. … [visit site to read more]

Skate Singapore 2007
29 November – 2 December 07 at the Fuji Ice Palace, Jurong East

Story by Laura Reid. Pictures courtesy of Annie Koh, Carol Tan and Fuji Ice Palace.

If you want to chill this school holiday, check out Skate Singapore 2007 from November 29th to December 2nd at Fuji Ice Palace in Jurong East.

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Beijing Olympics 2008

I don’t know Sarah Paw. Never met her in my life. But the girl has a dream to be a torch bearer. So I say, “You go, girl.” Let’s help put her and Singapore on the map by at least hauling her rank back up into the top 20. There are 227 applicants for the eight spots as torch bearers for next year’s Beijing Olympics. If we can get a fellow Singaporean up into the top 20, I think we will show the world that we care about how our fellow Singaporeans do in the sporting arena. Let’s show that even though we are small, we have loud voices.

Very loud voices.

Sarah Paw won the the Novice Ladies Event at the 6th Singapore National Figure Skating Championships 2007. © Leslie Tan/Red Sports

Background:

Sarah Paw, a 15-year-old Singaporean ice-skater, is competing to become a torch bearer at next year's Beijing Olympics. Sarah has picked up over 1,900 votes as of today but has dropped out of the top 20th in an online poll. She hit a high of 15th. Sarah, who attends an international school in Beijing, needs your vote if she is going to advance in the selection process. Eight torch bearers will be chosen and voting ends in the middle of October.

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Story written by Laura Reid. Pictures by Leslie Tan. © Red Sports/soulbreath pictures

Figure skating isn’t a sport many Singaporeans know much about, but I believe the little red dot is going to rule the sport some day. I never miss an opportunity to deliver that message to anyone I meet.

I don’t care if you have no interest in skating, or if you disagree with me or even if you openly patronize me with platitudes, hoping I will go away. All I care about is getting people to take notice of the sport.

And that’s why RedShooter found himself at Fuji Ice Palace on Sunday April 1st, with his wife and kids, photographing the second day of events at the Singapore National Ice Skating Championships.

And now he has to agree with me that it is a sport like no other in Singapore.

People describe skaters ‘gliding’ across the ice. But the word ‘glide’ doesn’t capture the sheer power used by these kids to propel themselves around, across and over the ice. Nor does ‘glide’ hint at the kids’ ability to seemingly defy physical law. How is it humanly possible that a small body can jump up in the air, spin two times and land—without breaking anything?
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