New Hui Fen, only 17, helped Singapore score our first gold medal in the girls’ singles event on the first day of the bowling competition. The event took place at the Orchid Country Club.

For her efforts, Hui Fen will receive a cash reward of $4,000, offered by the Singapore Bowling Federation and Orchid Bowl for every gold medal won by the country’s keglers.

Are we going to see a new bowling craze following the footsteps of our table tennis players along with 乒乓圆?

Name: New Hui Fen
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 01/01/92
Years in bowling: 8
Why in the sport: Passion for the sport
Most Memorable Moment: Winning team event at Intercity
Most influential person: A.K. Yong
Bowling Idol: Remy Ong
Ambition: World Champion
High Game: 300
No. of Perfect Games: 1
High 3 Games: 743

Achievements:

Asian Intercity 2008 Women’s Masters Gold
Penang Pesta 2008 U-16 Masters 1st
National Schools Five Gold
Singapore Nationals ‘08 Women’s Open 2nd

A security guard, right, holds a ball girl as she faints on the court during the match of Jurgen Melzer of Austria and Rafael Nadal of Spain at the Madrid Open Tennis in Madrid, on Wednesday, May 13, 2009. (AP Photo/Paul White)

I heard the security industry was doing very well in this recession but with this, I bet everyone’s going to sign up as one now.

Groping and grinding an unsuspecting, pretty, young lady during a widely covered event, while being photographed, with no disciplinary action.

Luckiest guy that day?

Higher res photos after the jump.

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In alphabetical order;

Athletics
Badminton
Baseball
Basketball
Beach Volleyball
Biking
Boating
Bocce
Bowling
Boxing
Bulls
Chess
Cricket
Cycling
Dragon Boat Racing
Field Hockey
Fishing
Football
Golf
Handball
Hockey
Hurling
Ice Hockey
Judo
Karate
Martial Arts
Paddle Tennis
Ping Pong
Polo
Racing
Rugby
Running
Shooting
Skiing
Soccer
Squash
Surfing
Swimming
Table Tennis
Taekwondo
Tennis
Volleyball
Walking
Waterpolo
Wind Surfing

Full list after the jump!

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/2557320/Swedish-wrestler-Ara-Abrahamian-throws-away-medal-in-Olympic-hissy-fit.html

Apparently, there was some ‘politics’ going on behind the scenes.

Video of the match after the jump, watch it quick, it’ll probably be removed by YouTube very soon;

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Silver. Am I the only one who feels that the Singapore team wasn’t even trying in the Olympics Table Tennis finals?

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/369089/1/.html

Mr Lee, who also spoke in English, has decided to postpone the telecast of that speech to Monday night at 8pm.

Explaining the unprecedented move, Mr Lee told his audience at the University Cultural Centre that he arrived at the decision after learning on Friday that Team Singapore had made it to the women’s table-tennis finals which took place on Sunday evening.

“I knew that everybody would want to watch the game and cheer for our team in Beijing. But it left me with a small problem – what to do with the National Day Rally? So, after thinking it over and consulting my colleagues, we decided on this solution – Rally proceeds.

“For the home audience, we will delay the telecast of the English speech till Monday night, 24 hours (later) and then the newspapers will carry it on Tuesday morning. For the Malay and Chinese speeches, we will carry on as normal. But the English speech is embargoed, so please don’t tell your friends and family my jokes,” Mr Lee quipped.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/369107/1/.html

Mee Siam Mai Hum?

LIVE UPDATE!

…AND SINGAPORE WON!

One thing I don’t understand, why the hell do the players keep blowing onto their bats and balls?

Feng Tianwei vs Dang Ye Seo
11-5, 11-5, 11-2

Li Jia Wei vs Kim Kyung Ah
11-5, 8-11, 11-9, 6-11, 9-11

Li Jia Wei, Wang Yue Gu vs Kim Kyung Ah, Park Mi Young
11-7, 11-6, 11-9

Wang Yue Gu vs Dang Ye Seo
8-11, 12-14, 9-11

Feng Tianwei vs Park Mi Young
11-7, 12-10, 3-11, 11-9

Let’s work it out…

If Singapore trumps South Korea, it will be a guaranteed Silver Medal.

If South Korea trumps Singapore, it will be 6-team play-off for the Bronze Medal.