KUANTAN - As the LionsXII squad went through their paces at Pahang's Darul Makmur Stadium yesterday, it was evident that their morale was high. Players wore wide smiles and coach V. Sundramoorthy was happy to conduct a light training session, as the tactics had been rehearsed in Singapore. They also realise that the Malaysian Super League (MSL) title is within the team's grasp. Some of Sundram's ...

SINGAPORE swimmer Joseph Schooling signed off on Sunday at the Arena Grand Prix in Charlotte, the United States, with yet another national record. The 17-year-old clocked 2min 3.26sec in the morning's heats to rewrite his own 200m Individual Medley (IM) mark of 2:03.61 timed last February in Orlando. He further lowered it to 2:00.77 in the evening's final, on the way to winning himself a place on ...

TEAM Singapore's gold rush at the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships in New Delhi continued yesterday with victory in the mixed doubles. Clinching their third title at this year's event was the pair of Zhan Jian and Zhou Yihan, who handily defeated India's Soumyajit Ghosh and Mouma Das 3-0 in last night's final. Their victory came a day after the Republic's paddlers retained both the men and ...

THE Schools National Volleyball Championships A Division saw the crowning of new champions in both the girls and boys' competitions at the Toa Payoh Sports Hall yesterday. In the boys' event, Hwa Chong Institution (HCI) were dethroned by Nanyang Junior College (NYJC) after a four-year reign. And in the girls' category, Anglo-Chinese Junior College (ACJC) beat NYJC to win their maiden volleyball ...

SINGAPORE have boldly selected an all-local line-up of golfers to face Malaysia in the inaugural Causeway Trophy next month. Myanmar's Zaw Moe and Australian native Park Unho - both of whom are permanent residents - were left out from the 12-man squad announced yesterday. With national pride and bragging rights at stake, the two nations square off at Laguna National Golf and Country Club from ...

Excessive impact, joint injuries and age are all factors that contribute to osteoarthritis of the knee. While there is not much one can do about some of those things, the most important thing that can be done to improve this degenerative condition of the joint is to shed excess body weight, said DrCindy Lin, a staff-attending physician at the Changi Sports Medicine Centre at Changi General ...

THIS time last year, Aishah Samad had just begun a new phase in her life. The 2003 SEA Games shooting bronze medallist had quit her job as an auxiliary officer with Cisco to become a coach, hoping to inspire the next generation of Singapore marksmen. But her plans were derailed last July when a severe bacterial infection eventually led to the amputation of her arms and legs. Yet, the 40-year-old ...

SINGAPOREAN undergraduate Teo Xu set off yesterday on a gruelling 600km solo trek from Edinburgh to London. The intrepid 27-year-old, who is raising money for needy children, will cover about 20 times the distance from Jurong to Changi by the time he is done. Along the way, if all goes according to plan, he will pass cities such as York before completing his walk next Sunday. The project started ...

Tanjong Pagar United 1 Tampines Rovers 0 MAY 5, 2013 is a date that neither Kamel Ramdani nor anyone associated with Tanjong Pagar United is likely to forget in a hurry. Not only did the Frenchman score the goal that ended Tampines Rovers' unbeaten start to the Great Eastern-Yeo's S-League season, he also came off the pitch to the news that his wife Sabrina had ...

FOR someone who needs a bone marrow transplant, the odds of finding a donor with compatible marrow is one in 20,000 - and this is in largely homogenous societies such as the United States or Europe. In Singapore, where the population is small and ethnically diverse, the odds are even smaller, as compatibility is also reliant on ethnicity. So it becomes a numbers game. As Yvonne Loh, a member of ...

THE Singapore Sports School (SSP) bagged their first Boys' B Division title in the Schools National Swimming Championships yesterday. They did it in style too, outswimming Anglo-Chinese School (Independent), champions for the last four years. Said Ng Kok Wei, SSP's senior general manager of the swim team: "More than anything, this title is a result of sheer hard work." Added the school's director ...

WHEN he injected an initial £6 million (S$11.3 million) into floundering Cardiff City three years ago, Malaysian tycoon Vincent Tan was clueless about the offside rule and football in general. With Cardiff set to receive more than £100 million next year following its promotion to the Premier League, he appears to have hit pay-dirt. "I didn't know that the TV rights would go up 70 per cent in the ...

TWO national age-group records and four meet records fell yesterday at the Schools National Swimming Championships at Woodlands yesterday - all to one boy who once refused to dip his feet in the water. But that is now all history for Francis Fong of Anglo-Chinese School (Independent), who splashed to four gold medals in the C division: two in the 50m and 100m backstroke and two in the 4x50m ...

AFTER reigning for 22 years as B boys' champions, Hwa Chong Institution finally relinquished their stranglehold on the division title to the Singapore Sports School (SSP) at the annual Schools National Track and Field Championships yesterday. The SSP's head coach of track and field Ralf Iwan, 46, attributed their success to a change in approach. He said: "The major change that we have made this ...