Having blazed a trail for Singapore swimming, Olympic 100m butterfly champion Joseph Schooling believes team-mate Quah Zheng Wen can join him as an Olympic medallist sooner rather than later.At the ongoing Rio de Janeiro Games, Quah reached the 100m...
When it comes down to determining success and failure in top-level sport, sometimes it can boil down to mere inches.That's exactly what a world-class athlete learned the hard way at the Olympics on Saturday (Aug 13).Japan's Hiroki Ogita agonisingly...
Eight years after carrying Malaysia's flag at the opening of the Beijing Olympics, Azizulhasni Awang finally fulfilled the dream of winning his country's first ever track cycling medal on Tuesday.Awang, nicknamed the 'pocket rocket' because of his small stature,...
Malaysia is headed for its best ever medal haul in the Olympics - one silver is in the bag, two more are certain and if all goes well, it could well be three or even four golds for the...
RIO DE JANEIRO - Japan's 15-year-old Mima Ito won the game that secured her country a women's team bronze medal, triggering an emotional reaction from her team mate on Tuesday.The world number nine defeated Feng Tianwei in the fourth...
If you watched Olympic track and field on Monday, you might have seen Ruth Jebet of Bahrain win the country's first-ever Olympic gold medal, in the women's 3,000-meter steeplechase.The NBCSN television announcer described the 19-year-old as running for Bahrain...
Singaporeans love a winner.How else can one explain why people camped out at Changi Airport as early as 10pm on Sunday, to catch Joseph Schooling's 5.45am arrival yesterday? Or why children were given permission to skip classes by their...
Rio de Janeiro - Michael Phelps has acknowledged a "small part" in his own dramatic Olympic defeat by Singapore hero Joseph Schooling but bears no grudge.Phelps spent most of the Olympic swimming contest beating swimmers he had inspired into...
COMMENTThe "ayes" were resounding after Parliament moved a motion to congratulate swimmer Joseph Schooling.It was an unprecedented Government action, coming just hours after Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen had said that Mindef had extended Schooling's deferment by four years.In...
The Chinese swimmer who raced into everyone's hearts with her adorably candid expressions and true-to-self quotes has once again, impressed netizens and international media with her unique honesty.This time, backstroke specialist Fu Yuanhui broke an unspoken sporting taboo by...
