Singapore's Cheryl Lim and Rainer Ng qualified for the semi-finals of the girls' 50 metre Breaststroke and boys' 100m Backstroke respectively on day one of the Youth Olympic Games swimming competition.
The most decorated female athlete at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2004 Athens Olympics, Natalie Coughlin of the USA, today confirmed her participation in the Singapore leg of the FINA/Arena Swimming World Cup that will be held from 16-17 October at the Singapore Sports School. This comes after the confirmation that the Singapore Swimming Association has signed on to host a leg of the FINA/Arena Swimming World Cup for the next four years till 2013.
The Youth Olympic Games are just around the corner and 130 Singaporean athletes will do battle in the red and white of Singapore. So feel free to express your best wishes to the athletes, especially if they are your teammates or your schoolmate, if they are your brother or your sister, if they are your son or your daughter.
Britain, who originally were not going to send any swimmers to the Youth Olympic Games, will send a token team after all, according to UK online site morethanthegame.co.uk.
Joshua Ling won the 200m breastsroke final in a time of 2:31.79 to capture Singapore's second and final gold at the ASEAN Schools Games swimming competition.
Singapore's Meagan Lim came home first in a time of 1:02.93 in the 100m butterfly, seeing off the challenge of Sarisa Suwannachet (1:03.89) of Thailand and Hii Siew Siew (1:04.02) of Malaysia.
Three-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt today became the latest high-profile athlete to sign on as a Youth Olympic Games Ambassador, joining a star-studded list that also includes Olympic champions swimmer Michael Phelps and pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva.
Swimmer Yip Pin Xiu was conferred the 2010 Singapore Youth Award in the sports and adventure category. Born with muscular dystrophy, 17-year-old paralympic swimmer Pin Xiu overcame her physical limitations to become one of Singapore’s top athletes.