Tag: sports
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Advertorial: POSB Everyday Champions 2009
The inaugural POSB Everyday Champions awards was held on 26th February 2009 at St Regis. Out of over 3,000 nominees (no, I didn’t nominate Coach Frank because of residency issues), 57 were winners on the night, and among them was Super Soccer Mum Carol Lim, 52, who 10 years ago set up the Elias Park…
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Advertorial: SSC POSB Everyday Champions
I’ve been asked to write about either a person or an organization that inspires or supports or encourages participation in sports. I can think of a handful of people I know who have been influential, although not in the way we’re accustomed to seeing, in promoting participation, and to a certain extent, excellence in their…
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Team Hoyt
If you don’t have enough of a tear-jerker among your Korean drama downloads, or you are simply inured to so many otherwise moving things in life, then you have to be told the story of Team Hoyt. Rick Hoyt was born severely disabled and his parents were told he would live in a permanently vegetative…
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Local hero: Fandi Ahmad
16 July 1982: Ajax Amsterdam offers Fandi a three year contract Fandi Ahmad got his first pair of football boots when he was 12. You’d think he’d have owned a pair earlier, or even been born wearing them. But early in his career (he started playing for school at 10), he wore hockey boots with…
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Why golf is as good as tennis
It’s time to take the clubs out of the closet. Because golf’s Anna is as hot as tennis’ Maria. And I haven’t even seen her tee off, much less birdie a hole, but I’ll definitely (with the wife’s blessing) be keeping an eagle eye out for her, regardless of how many bogeys she makes or…