Singapore’s first Olympic medal came from weight lifting when Tan Howe Liang lifted silver in the 1960 Rome Olympics.Īdded Liaw: “To get the sport to its former glory, we also need to organise more competitions, from the two we are doing now, and send promising lifters to overseas competitions. At the moment we have been able to get this for three schools and this is not enough to grow the sport,” said Liaw. “The extra money will help us get more equipment for schools and get more students to take up weight lifting. They will get under S$100,000, the same as last year, and will have to raise another half of that to meet operating expenses. While welcoming SSC’s new approach to work in partnership with NSAs, the Singapore Weightlifting Federation president Tom Liaw said they could do with a little more help. “We have to sit down with the SSC to see how we can get more money to expand our reach, especially among younger people.” The weights on the CPS files are controlled to independent estimates of the civilian noninstitutional population of the US. “There used to be over 1,000 people playing petanque but many have passed on and there are only about 800 of us left. Said Lim: “We are going to get SSC’s help on how we can make use of this innovation fund or else we may have to shut down. With a lack of funds, it will be difficult to promote petanque to younger and middle-age people. He said they will receive about S$32,000 in funding for the next financial year, and will struggle to keep afloat, ahead of the 2015 SEA Games here where the sport will be included in the competition.Ĭompanies, he added, have shunned sponsoring the NSA as it is known as a sport for senior citizens. With about S$20,000 left in their coffers, SBS Administrator and Development Manager Eddie Lim said they need about S$80,000 a year to sustain the sport. The BAS are hoping this will add to the estimated S$200,000 they will receive from the S$80.77 million that the SSC is disbursing for the 2014 financial year.īut at least one NSA, Sports Boules Singapore (SBS), has yet to understand how to tap into the innovation fund, which could very well be a lifeline for the governing body for petanque. With game-changing ideas, it means incrementally more budget is required.” “Money is never enough and it is important that we ensure our budget is deployed optimally. “Our budget has evolved over time to meet growing needs, developing of talent and organising tournaments. population growth is being driven by people of color and happening in metro areas. “We have at least one serious idea that we think will work,” said Ong. The women’s side last achieved the same feat at the 2003 edition. They are hoping to take the game forward after the men’s team bagged a bronze at the 2013 SEA Games after 32 years. But to tap into it, they must propose ideas that have the ability to take their respective sports to the next level, said SSC Chief Executive Lim Teck Yin.īasketball Association of Singapore (BAS) President David Ong said his committee has explored some ideas that could meet the SSC’s criteria. A cautious thumbs-up Singapore Weightlifting Federation which will get S100,000, same as last year can now tap into extra funds to help grow the sport and develop lifters such as Scott Wong. Census mapping has made great strides in the last few decades, from an activity requiring extensive fieldwork and manual drawing to one using remote sensing and computer-assisted map production. With the name change, Sport Singapore will seek to shed their authoritarian governing posture and forge partnerships, among others, with NSAs.Ī S$25 million innovation fund was also launched that NSAs can draw from to improve their capabilities. This comes in the wake of the announcement this week of a new identity that the SSC will adopt on from April 1 as Sport Singapore. National sports associations (NSAs) TODAY spoke to welcomed the flexibility in managing public funds given to them. SINGAPORE - Sports administrators have welcomed the move by the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) to ease the way they do business and make facilities and programmes more accessible. 'Add in the impact of the Census Bureau's privacy algorithm,' says Lombard, 'and I would not try comparing and be very cautious using any 2020 race data.' The two changes in population that should be most accurate are changes in the Asian and Hispanic populations, says Lombard, because they were fairly large and the Bureau didn't make.
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