RIO DE JANEIRO – Singapore sprinter Timothee Yap will face off with Jamaica superstar Usain Bolt tonight in the men’s 100m heats.
Yap is through to the heats after coming in second in his preliminary race with a time of 10.84s.
He will line up in Lane 4 of…
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S'pore sprinter Timothee Yap up against Jamaica star Usain Bolt in heats
Football: Champions Leicester stunned by Hull in Premier League opener
Leicester City’s Premier League title defence got off to a terrible start as they were beaten 2-1 at promoted Hull City, who shrugged off an injury crisis to shock the champions on the opening day of the new season on Saturday.
Robert Snodgrass thumped home a left-footed winner in the 57th minute after Leicester, who lost only three games last season, failed to clear their lines. Riyad Mahrez’s second-half penalty for Leicester had earlier cancelled out Adama Diomande’s acrobatic overhead kick.
Diomande gave Hull the lead against the run of play in the first minute of first-half stoppage time, leaping in tandem with Abel Hernandez to meet Kasper Schmeichel’s punched clearance from a Curtis Davies header.
Mahrez responded from the penalty spot two minutes into the second half after Tom Huddlestone had clipped Demarai Gray on the edge of the area, before Snodgrass slammed home the winner, providing some respite for Hull, who had only 13 fit first-team players available.
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Joseph Schooling: The road to gold
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Curious to know how far their child could go in the sport, the Schoolings send Joseph for a bone age test.
The test, which determines growth potential, revealed that he should hit around 1.9m,…
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Homecoming: Joseph Schooling to arrive in Singapore early Monday morning
According to officials from the Singapore National Olympic Council (SNOC), Schooling will be travelling via Singapore Airlines and is set to touch down at about 5.30am.
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Taiwan driver set fire to tour bus to kill mainland tourists: Media
BEIJING – The driver of the tour bus in which 26 people died on July 19 might have set fire to the vehicle after quarreling with his wife who had decided to return to Chinese mainland as the driver was involved in a sexual assault case, Taiwan media reported.
Investigators claim the quarrel might have led the driver to vent his anger on the mainland tourists.
The driver drank lots of liquor while driving to the Taoyuan International Airport on July 19, and poured gasoline on the water fountain and the panel board.
After the accident, the driver’s father said that the daughter-in-law has gone back to mainland with three children, and “will never come back.”
In the worst ever road accident for Chinese mainland visitors to the island, the entire tour group of 23 tourists and a guide were killed. The driver and another tour guide from Taiwan also died.
On Monday, a tour bus crash in Macau injured at least 32 mainland tourists. Macau police said the accident occurred when the bus was going downhill close to the Ruins of St. Paul, a well-known tourist attraction.
A white van rear-ended the bus, and the bus driver got out to check the situation.
The bus started rolling down the slope without the driver and rammed into a roadside clinic.
Macau’s Health Bureau said 10 people remain hospitalised.
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Schooling returns home on Monday
SINGAPORE – Newly crowned Olympic champion Joseph Schooling will be returning home to Singapore on Monday.
The 21-year-old, who won the Olympic 100m butterfly final with an Olympic record 50.39s on Saturday, will arrive in Singapore’s Changi Airport on…
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Netizens lap up Schooling's Olympics win with calls for holiday, NS exemption
Following Joseph Schooling’s historic win at the Olympics, some Singaporeans expressed hope that the 21-year-old could yet again defer his National Service (NS) stint.
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As it happens: 2016 Olympics Day 8, Aug 13
Channel NewsAsia brings you live updates of the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Behind an Olympic champion is a father’s love
SINGAPORE – It was 7.30am on Saturday morning (Aug 13), and the clock was ticking down to that historic moment delivered by Singapore’s Joseph Schooling.
Huddled together with about 15 people in a house in Jalan Chengam, a 68-year-old businessman ate local…
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Joseph Schooling to receive million-dollar prize money for historic Olympic medal
In a report by American television network CBS, “student-athletes are not allowed to be paid”, under National Collegiate Athletic Association rules. As a Singaporean, however, Schooling is exempted.
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