New National Sports Associations: Wrestling, Handball, Modern Pentathlon

Singapore will have three new National Sports Associations to prepare for the coming Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games Competition. This will ensure that Singapore is represented in all 26 sports during the Youth Olympic Games in the year 2010.

The three new sports NSA are wrestling, handball and modern pentathlon.

This was revealed by Senior Parliamentary Secretary (Community Development, Youth and Sports) Teo Ser Luck on 29 July 2008, according to the Straits Times report published on 30 July 2008.

Singapore YOG 2010 Logo Design Competition
Source: Official Singapore 2010 website

The Singapore YOG Organising Committee (SYOGOC) has started a Logo Design Competition for the Singapore Olympics for youths.


Format of Competition
This competition is open to only individuals. Group submissions are not allowed.

Members of the Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee (SYOGOC), the panel of judges and their immediate families are not permitted to take part in this competition.

Professional organisations are not permitted to take part in this competition but their employees may participate in the competition in their personal capacity.

The competition is divided into two categories:
a) Youth category (18 and below)
b) Open category

Each participant may submit only one design proposal.

Judging

Contest entries will be judged by a panel of local and international experts and their decision will be final.

Submission

Entries can be submitted online.

All participants must complete the entry form which includes:
(i) Personal particulars
(ii) Creative rationale (in about 200 words) explaining the concept of the design.

All online entries should not exceed 1MB in file size and must be submitted in .jpeg or .gif format.

Participants may be asked to submit a higher resolution rendition of their design.

The closing date for submission is 29 August 2008.

Guidelines for Design

The logo should cover three broad themes:
(i) Youthful spirit
(ii) Values of Olympism
(iii) The Singapore identity

The Singapore 2010 logo should include the following 4 elements:
a) The original distinctive element.
b) The name of the City and the year of the Youth Olympic Games.
c) The Olympic symbol.
d) The wordmark “Youth Olympic Games”.


Prizes to be worn are listed here.

Overall Best Design

A chance to be one of the Torchbearers during the Torch Relay for the Singapore 2010 Games.
A pair of exclusive tickets to the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Singapore 2010 Games.
The ultra chic Olympic Edition Samsung SGH F480.

Merit Prizes

A pair of exclusive tickets to the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of Singapore 2010 Games.
A Samsung voucher worth $200

Check more details at website logo competition site.

49th National Inter School Track And Field Championships Singapore

At the 49th National Inter School Track and Field Championships in Singapore held up till yesterday, many new records were set during the track and field athletic events held at the Choa Chu Kang Stadium.

The new records that were set at the 49th National Inter School Track and Field Championships are listed below:

Girls' A 100 metres hurdles final
Amanda Tan, Hwa Chong Institution
15.47 sec

Girls' B 100 metres hurdles final
Inez Leong, CHIJ St Nicholas Girls'
Record Timing : 15.42 sec

Girls' C 80 metre hurdles final
Goh Weining, Singapore Sports School
Record Timing: 12.52 sec

Girls' A 400 metre final
Shalom See, National Junior College
Record Timing: 58.65 sec

Girls' B 400 metre final
Piriyah Thirualkarasu, Singapore Sports School
Record Timing: 57.11 (new under 17 record)

Girls' C 400 metre final
Clara Poon, Cedar Girls'
Record Timing: 1:00.04

Boys A 400 metre final
Shalindran Sathiyanesan, Millennia Institute
Record Timing: 49.35 sec

Boys B 400 metre final
Jamie Coates, Singapore Sports School
Record timing: 49.75 sec

Boys C 400 metre final
Ng Chin Hui, Anglo-Chinese School
Record Timing: 51.97 sec

Boys B shot put final
Cai Jia Shen, Hwa Chong Institution
Record distance: 15.74 metre

Singapore Youth Olympic Games blog congratulates all the record setting winners of the 49th National Inter School Track and Field Championships.

2011 World Netball Championships Singapore

Singapore will be the host to the 2011 World Netball Championships. This was confirmed according to the Sunday Times published today.

Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports Vivian Balakrishnan witnessed the signing ceremony yesterday. The International Federation of Netball Associations (IFNA) and Netball Singapore officially signed the deal at the Singapore Flyer function room on 5 July 2008.

This event was attended by IFNA president Molly Rhone and chairman of the 2011 organising committee and Member of Parliament (MP) for East Coast GRC Jessica Tan, as well as Netball Singapore president Tan Wee Khim.

Singapore Youth Olympic Games blog wishes the 2011 World Netball Championships to be held in Singapore in 2011 all the best!

YOG Olympic Celebrity Watch: Michael Phelps

Every Olympic Games has its Olympic celebrity or two to watch out for. Before every Olympic Games, there will always be celebrity sportsmen or sportswomen to watch who turn into Olympic darlings of world media. These highly driven Olympians-to-be, who possess athletic talent of Olympian proportions and put in the requisite hours of training, always have a mysterious X-factor that pushes them onto Olympic celebrity watch superstar status. Somehow these future Olympians are able to capture the watchful imagination of the public with the prospect of achieving great Olympic goals during any Olympic Games.

Today at Singapore Youth Olympic Games (YOG), we highlight one such rising star in our Olympic Celebrity Watch. He is none other than 23-year-old US swim sensation Michael Phelps who has stirred up Olympic celebrity watch frenzy in the United States.
The world record holder in the 200-metre freestyle, he came close to rewriting his record during recent US Olympic trials. He is also strong in the 200-metre butterfly and the 100-metre breaststroke. In fact, Michael Phelps has been tipped to win as many gold medals as the legendary 1972 Olympian swimmer Mark Spitz of the United States of America.

To qualify to be an idol on the Olympic celebrity watch, he has steely nerves when under the swimming pool spotlight and possesses down to earth demeanor when out of the pool. Gary Hall JR, four gold medallist in the 1976 Olympic Swimming Finals, was quoted as saying ”It’s impossible for most people to really express that when you’re in a sport where half your social life is being developed with your head under the water” on why Michael Phelps does not come across as flamboyant.

Will Singapore have its own local sportspersons to write about in Olympic Celebrity Watch in the upcoming inaugural Youth Olympic Games YOG to be held in Singapore in the year 2010?