What price glory?
So the Beijing Olympics will end with Singapore having a solitary silver, the first medal of any hue since the 1960 Rome Games when this was not even an independent country.
Identifying Singapore
Just a week after Singapore celebrated National Day the country’s table-tennis players reached the final of the women’s team competition at the Beijing Olympics. Despite guaranteeing Singapore’s first Olympic medal since 1960, the country is not yet in the grip of Olympic excitement.
Many families have been here for two or three generations, enough to reinforce [...]