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Remember Our Fallen Singaporeans

RUNNING The Singapore Marathon 07 A large group of runners headed down the finishing stretch. They ran closely, deliberately. The emcee mistook them for an army unit. A closer look confirmed otherwise. It was the Singapore Dragon Boat team, running in memory of their five teammates who drowned in the tragic accident at the Cambodian Water Festival on the Tonle Sap River on Friday, 23 November 2007. 60-year- ...

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Never Give Up

Story and pictures by Leslie Tan. © Red Sports Singaporean Roy Wong on his way to finishing 5th in the 10km Wheelchair Race in a time of 52:27 at the Singapore Marathon. © Leslie Tan/Red Sports A 10km Wheelchair Race was incorporated into the Singapore Marathon, making the event an inclusive one for Singaporeans. $200,000 was also raised by runners for the Autism Association (Singapore), the offic ...

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Daniel Ling and Vivian Tang – Singapore’s fastest marathon runners

RUNNING Singapore Marathon 2 December 07 Daniel Ling was Singapore's fastest marathon man yesterday when he finished the 42km race in a time of 2 hours, 46 minutes and 31 seconds. M. Rameshon, 42, the current marathon national record holder with a time of 2:24.22 as well as Ling's coach and training partner, followed up 5 minutes later in 2:51:22. Ling, who is 29 years of age and teaches physical education ...

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My first trail marathon

RUNNING Golden Hills Trail Marathon 13 Oct 2007, Berkeley, CA, USA Story by Sim Phei Sunn. Editor's note: Running is the base for all sports. A strong fitness base is built through running and that is what separates good teams from very good teams in the last quarter or last 15 minutes of any game. Our contributor for this feature is Sim Phei Sunn, a working adult who was from Nanyang Girls' and Hwa Chong J ...

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Red Sports shoot adidas ads

By Les Tan Now, is that big or what? I'm still figuring out how to "borrow" this one to bring home. Hmm ... (Photo © Leslie Tan/Red Sports) ...

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Defending champion Suzy Walsham finishes 2nd in Women 10k

Story and pictures by Leslie Tan How do you know you're an elite runner at an event with 8,000 runners? There's nobody near you. Suzy Walsham runs down the stretch alone towards the finish line. (Photo 1 © Les Tan/Red Sports) The Padang, Sunday, October 21, 2007 - Australian Suzy Walsham, the defending champion of the Women 10k, came in second in a personal best time of 34 minutes 19.25 seconds this mo ...

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