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The excitement is reaching fever pitch as football fans turn up in hordes to get their hands on tickets for the home leg of Singapore’s Asean Championship semi-final tie against Vietnam.
Meanwhile, the Singapore silat team are also celebrating after winning three titles at the world championships in Abu Dhabi, with Sheik Ferdous Sheik Alau’ddin reclaiming the gold he last won in 2018.
Separately, Singapore’s new badminton mixed doubles pair of Terry Hee and Jin Yujia are not resting on their laurels despite clinching the title in Bangladesh in just their third outing together.
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Football fever returns: Asean C’ship semi-final tickets for S’pore’s game sell out in hours
The Lions take on Vietnam at Jalan Besar on Thursday and away on Sunday for a place in the final.
Coach Tsutomu Ogura tells Lions to keep making Asean C’ship history
Singapore are in the last four for only the second time since they last won the tournament in 2012.
S’pore claim three golds at World Pencak Silat C’ships
Sheik Farhan wins fifth gold, while Sheik Ferdous and Muhammad Iqbal also finish top of the podium.
S’pore’s Terry Hee and Jin Yujia not content with Bangladesh badminton title
Greater challenges await this new partnership, starting with the Jan 7-12 Malaysia Open.
Trip down memory lane for S’pore’s 1994 double-winning squad at 30th anniversary celebrations
The players in attendance included Malaysia Cup final hat-trick hero Abbas Saad, Rafi Ali and Malek Awab.
Skipping football training led him to squash: Kid’s book traces the journey of S’pore’s Zainal Abidin
The nine-time East Asian squash champion spearheaded Singapore’s rise in the sport in the 1980s.
S’porean golfer Hiroshi Tai looks forward to Masters debut
He earned his spot by winning the National Collegiate Athletic Association Championship in May.
National kayaker Yeo Min juggles sport, studies and personal challenges to ace IB exam
From confidence crisis to blame games: Why Man City’s machine is breaking down
Sports psychologists, consultants and a former Premier League player share why the champions have lost their mojo.
Sporting Life: Sport is full of poetry yet there’s nothing like an ode to effort
Sport is viewed as an art form and poetry seems to follow it around, says Rohit Brijnath.
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