{"id":22857,"date":"2025-12-25T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T00:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=22857"},"modified":"2025-12-25T08:00:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T00:00:37","slug":"forum-singapore-did-well-in-athletics-at-sea-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=22857","title":{"rendered":"Forum: Singapore did well in athletics at SEA Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">As an octogenarian and a keen follower of the athletics scene in Singapore since the 1960s, I was delighted and impressed with the three golds, three silvers and three bronzes Singapore won at the recent\u00a0SEA\u00a0Games in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Our athletes won medals in events which hadn\u2019t been won in a long  time, as in Calvin Quek\u2019s 400m hurdles gold after an absence of 60 years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Hence, I don\u2019t agree with Singapore National Olympic Council\u00a0secretary-general Mark Chay\u2019s comparison of the 19 out of 38 golds won in  swimming with the three out of 47 golds won in athletics (SEA Games 2025: Athletics needs to \u2018come to the party\u2019 in Singapore\u2019s hunt for more golds, Dec 20). The two sports and their levels are different.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In fact, I would like to congratulate Singapore Athletics president Lien Choong Luen and his committee <!-- -->members <!-- -->for a job well done<!-- --> and the best is yet to be<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\"><b>Chia Hearn Kok<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"tags-test-id\">\n<p><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for Today's Letters\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Today&#8217;s Letters<\/span><\/button><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for SEA Games\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">SEA Games<\/span><\/button><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for Athletics\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Athletics<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/opinion\/forum\/forum-singapore-did-well-in-athletics-at-sea-games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an octogenarian and a keen follower of the athletics scene in Singapore since the 1960s, I was delighted and impressed with the three golds,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}