In Pictures: Team SG's pre-Olympics profile shots
With the 2016 Olympics starting soon on Aug 5, most of our Singaporean athletes are either on their way to Rio in Brazil or are already there. ST photojournalist Kevin Lim managed to snap some special shots of them before he too, heads over to the Brazilian city this weekend.
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Neo Jie Shi, a marathoner for the Olympic Games, runs in a park near Jurong SAFRA where she trains. She is the first female marathoner since Yvonne Danson went to the 1996 Atlanta Games.
ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM
Singapore's shuttler Liang Xiaoyu, who will be making her Olympic debut in Rio, training at the void deck in Marsiling Crescent, where the 20-year-old has been sharpening her badminton techniques since 2007.
ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM
Teo Shun Xie at Catholic Junior College's shooting range, where she first started.
ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM
Singapore table tennis player Yu Mengyu was 17 when she left Liaoning a decade ago for Singapore. She will turn 27 during the Olympics in Rio as she finally gets her time on the most coveted stage of all.
ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM
National rower Saiyidah Aisyah, Singapore's first rower to compete at the Olympic Games.
ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM
Singapore's Leonard Ong is the first local windsurfer since the late Kelly Chan in 1984, to qualify for the Olympics. He will be in Rio soon.
ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM
