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For The Love Of The Game
Handball has them in its grip
Football may be Singapore's No. 1 sport but there are other sporting love affairs around the island. In this fortnightly series, The Straits Times seeks out new games and discovers that a country's passion for sport, even in this time of Covid, burns brightly.
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Ham Jia Yun shooting at training last month. A defensive mistake in a university inter-hall game spurred her to play the sport seriously.
ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM
When Ham Jia Yun was first asked to play in a varsity inter-hall handball game in 2009, she had no idea what the sport was about and had to be coached by her teammates during the game.
She told The Straits Times: "I had only heard about it in junior college but I had never played it before, so it was a bit of a shock to me. I didn't know how to shoot or the appropriate footwork.
