Hi athletes and sports fans,

This morning, an email in my inbox from our webmaster asked: “Is today the 1st birthday of Red Sports? The first post is dated January 31, 2007.” And so it is. We have turned a year old and in those 365 days, we have posted 852 stories with a lot of help from readers.

Interestingly, the statistics indicate that we hit a record high of 175,000 page views for a single month in January 2008 from 43,000 unique visitors, the second highest monthly total since May 2007 (46,500). To date, a total of 353,000 readers have visited Red Sports generating 1.4 million page views.

So we would like to say a big “thank you” to our readers who keep coming back and to our volunteers and freelancers who have spent time writing stories and taking pictures. Red Sports is around because you give us permission to be part of your lives, to tell your stories and to take your pictures.

Red Sports exists to tell a Singapore sports story because this is our town. Why is this story important? Because this is where we live, this is where we grow up, and to represent your school, your club, your country is an honour and a privilege.

To play is to remember that we are human, that we are designed to move. To play is to feel your adrenalin flowing, your heart beating. To play is to feel, endure and overcome pain, to learn grace in victory and humility in defeat.

To play is to live.

Play on, Singapore.

Les

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What REDSPORTS.SG looked like when we first went live on January 31, 2007.