NOV 2 Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean's announcement yesterday which a Singapore National Olympic Council has been since a green light to bid to horde a 2015 SEA Games is a outrageous fillip for competition in a country.
The 2011 Games will officially open in Palembang, Indonesia, subsequent Friday. Both Jakarta as well as Palembang will horde a multi-sport eventuality from November eleven to 22.
While you wait for to listen to of Tao Li's exploits in a pool as well as pray for a football group to finally break an implausible gold-medal drought in Indonesia, there will additionally be nerves jangling here as a republic waits for news divided from a foe arena, as a SEA Games Federation decide a horde republic for a 2015 eventuality upon a sidelines of a 2011 Games.
If Singapore gets a curtsy to horde a 2015 SEA Games, it will be an additional poignant step upon a highway to reviving a culture of competition which was once partial of a fabric of life here. And there's no better way to convene a republic than a outrageous sports event.
Ask New Zealand, after a new Rugby World Cup.
The final time Singapore hosted a regional eventuality was in 1993.
There is a outrageous swathe of a population who have not gifted a sorcery of a SEA Games. Yes, a republic hosted a Asian Youth Games in 2009.
Last year's inaugural Youth Olympic Games saw tighten to 3,600 athletes from 201 National Olympic Committees competing in 201 events in 26 sports. But, in conditions of size, a SEA Games is bigger.
There will be more than 6,000 athletes competing in 545 events in 42 sports during this year's Games in Indonesia. The estimated number of volunteers has been tagged during 9,000.
Indonesia has estimated a cost to stage a Games during US$ 297 million (RM933 million). The aim is to galvanize a republic as well as inspire as most youngsters as probable to chase a mental condition of becoming champion gymnasts, dead-eye shooters as well as top-notch lane s! printers .
Perhaps a alternative idea is to prise youngsters divided from computers games as well as DVDs as well as convince them to take up sport, as well as combat obesity.
It is all really most upon Singapore's agenda.
While a Sports Hub is set to open in April 2014, a SEA Games but it will still be more than a worthwhile venture.
Hosting a 2015 SEA Games will initiate a spirit of volunteerism, with thousands of Singaporeans tasked to be relationship as well as media officers, ushers as well as venue coordinators, among others.
They will be charged to be international ambassadors of a country, a experience will be priceless for youngsters as they draft their destiny in whatever pursuit they desire.
When a camera panned to a directors' box during Old Trafford dual Sundays ago, we spotted Singapore billionaire Peter Lim sitting subsequent to Manchester United owners a Glazers.
A couple of days later a world's best women list tennis players flew in to Singapore for a Volkswagen Women's World Cup as well as China's Ding Ning valid herself a best player upon a world during a Toa Payoh Sports Hall.
Once Ian Thorpe carried which layer in his sport, a Singapore Sports School will be a first swimming theatre where he launches his comeback, upon Friday.
The sports scene in Singapore has been transformed since a Republic final hosted a SEA Games in 1993.
The republic has people willing to invest in world-renowned sports institutions.
The republic is becoming a prime end for world-class sporting events.
It all started for us in 1973 when a National Stadium hosted a opening ceremony of what was then called a South-east Asia Peninsula Games.
On a 50th year of a country's independence in 2015, a 28th SEA Games in Singapore would be a undiluted time for competition in a republic to make a subsequent hulk leap forward. Today
* Leonard Thomas is sports editor during Today.
* This is a personal perspect! ive of a bard or publication, as well as does not indispensably represent a views of The Malaysian Insider.
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