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Olympic champion Joseph Schooling vowed to “fix” his physique after winning only one individual gold medal at the Southeast Asian Games, less than eight months before his title defence at Tokyo 2020. The 24-year-old Singaporean famously beat his idol, US legend Michael Phelps, at the Rio 2016 Olympics in the 100m butterfly final, but finds himself out of form and …

by James EDGAR Olympic champion Joseph Schooling lived up to his billing at the Southeast Asian Games on Friday, claiming two golds in the pool in the Philippines. The Singaporean swimmer clinched his pet 100m butterfly — which he famously won ahead of Michael Phelps at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games — in a time of 51.84 seconds, pipping his countryman …

Costume changes, last-minute makeup touches and air kisses — dancesport made a flamboyant entrance on Sunday as the Southeast Asian Games got off to a sparkling start in the Philippines. The ballroom competition picked up the baton from the colour, music and glamour of the previous night’s glitzy opening ceremony, with all the coiffed hairstyles and high tension of a …

Singapore’s Legion of Racers (LOR) is the only team from Asia that have been accepted into the prestigious Le Mans Esports Series 2020 world tourney which will take place from end of November 2019 till June 2020. Three Esports racing athletes from the LOR will face off against 15 other teams from all over the world – such as the …

Last Friday (1 Nov), Changi Airport Group (CAG) and the Drone Racing League (DRL) – the world’s only professional circuit for drone racing – announced a partnership for Singapore to host its first professional drone race, the ‘DRL Allianz: Singapore Champions’, at Gardens by the Bay (GTBB) on 26 November at 7.30pm. Supported by Singapore Tourism Board, CAG has teamed up with …

Following the sentencing of a local electronics retailer to three months of jail and a S$5,400 fine for copyright infringement via illegal streaming devices sold at his store, the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) has made an appeal against what it has deemed to be “excessive” sentences meted out by the State Courts. The AGC, in a statement yesterday (31 Oct), argued …

A local electronics retailer on Wed (30 Oct) was sentenced to three months of jail and a S$5,400 fine after being found guilty of providing access to illegal broadcasts of Premier League football and other entertainment content via streaming devices. Jia Xiaofeng, the director of Synnex Trading, was found to have sold streaming devices, commonly known as Android TV boxes, …

National rower Joan Poh, who is aiming to qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, has been given a massive boost by the Chiam See Tong Sports Fund (CSTSF) as the Fund earlier today (22 Oct) announced that the 28-year-old has become its latest beneficiary. Ms Poh, a registered nurse in an acute kidney dialysis unit, has taken some time off …

Three simulator e-racers have earned professional e-sports contracts with the Legion of Racers (LOR) after emerging as the top three finalists in the LOR competition held during GameStart 2019, Southeast Asia’s premier gaming convention, at Suntec City on 12 and 13 October. What’s more, two of the racers, 25-year-old Andika Rama (1st place) from Indonesia and 27-year-old Luis Moreno (2nd …

Singaporean Ar Muhammad Aleef Mohamed Rafik has been crowned the Logitech G Challenge Asia Pacific e-racing champion in Melbourne on Saturday (12 Oct), and is set to represent the country in the World Finals in Las Vegas next month where he will be facing the champions from other regions. Mr Aleef, a 21-year-old student who is a professional e-sports athlete …