More sports featured from the 25th Sea Games

Singapore 40-year old athlete James Wong winning another gold medal.

 

Noeng Ruthai Chaipech of Thailand poses after winning the high jump final. (AFP)

 

Another beautiful moment of the athlete who the gold medal at the high jump event. (AFP)

Lindswell of Indonesia at the Taiji quan event. (AFP)

With two days more to the end of the 25th Sea Games, the heat is getting up at the field scenes and Wushu scenes. The athletes competed at the finals for these events and Singapore's discus thrower James Wong who may actually be the one or if not the oldest athlete continue to prove his skills and won the gold medal. He may be looking to win for his eight gold medal as he had his shoe designed with a "8possible" logo. Thailand and vietnam continue to increase their gold haul in events at the field and other sports. They are the top two at the medal tally. Today also marked the end of the Wushu finals and the athletes continued to display flamboyant and fascinating moves and moments. It was also a combination of skills and grace for taji quan and sword events. While other events show aggression and strength, this event shows grace and strength. Their slow, gentle then sudden accompanied by fast and swift movements made this event interesting to watch.

25th Sea Games

Sea Games 2009 best female athlete is Singapore's Quah Ting Wen.

A beautiful night nearing the games.

The Sea Games 2009 hosted by Laos this year and also their first time has been a success. A small nation that is actually quite laid back has certainly shown that it has progress over the years. Its development and the process of building the facilities has made people of Laos pretty happy. There were comments by the people that this Sea Games has boosted their revenues. A year ago when posted on Sea Games Laos faced many issues of hosting the games such as facilities and etc. But they have pulled it off so well and that they added a little warm by not being a good organizer but a good host to the participants from other nations. Singapore representatives for one are one of those that praised Laos for its hospitality. It was a good game, a good memory for many. Singapore's swimmer Quah Ting Wen has been named as the best female athlete. At the age of 17, she won 4 golds and some silvers. Well done for her and for Laos for hosting an impressive Sea Games.

Some moments, thoughts and reviews of the 25th Sea Games

The game started with fireworks so brilliant that spark everyone's mood. (AFP)

Contingent marching in. ( AP)

The recovery centre for Singapore athletes. (SSC)

There is even pool therapy for the athletes. (SSC)

Swimming bringing 14 golds back home with the girls' team sweeping most of them.

One more gold for Singapore from shot put event.

The current best sports still for Singapore is table tennis with a relatively strong team.

All in all, the games at Laos were held successfully and they were carried out smoothly. I have to say as a person who has been watching these sports think that the host nation deserves a praise of job well done. They even actually send cheering team to support other nations that make most of the events with that kind of hype. Singapore managed to clinch one more gold from the field and that's about all. As expected it was not able to maintain its third placing in the medal tally. But certainly it was not bad as despite sending in the smallest contingent from previous years they won many 33 golds back. At this games, Singapore is also one nation that offers real good sports recovery service that won over the rest of the participating nations it seems. They offer food done by experts that can boost the athletes energy and recovery, therapists that help to massage them and even pools for them to relax and recover. Most sports are over now and just left a few events and a nice closing ceremony to mark the end of this great 25th Sea Games hosted first time by a nation that has certainly impressed other nations.

The actions continue from the 25th Sea Games

A scene taken from the green pastures of golf.

Wushu exponents demonstrating their skills.

The table tennis games are always at a tension.

Being calm and composure at the game.

It was just a few more days for the games and there are continuous actions from the different sports. This year there is definitely more sports being featured and I actually find more enjoyment in watching the highlights as there are more unique and interesting moments to watch. The Wushu was quite fascinating actually where you can see the speed and agility from the athletes. Singapore won their gold in the duilian event with a score of 9.46 and it was a first gold for the 23 year old Khor Poh Chin at her first fourth Sea Games. The golf team also done well by clinching the silver for the first although initially they were of gold standard but due to a tie with another country they have to play off. English billiards was a pretty exciting sport especially when at the end both players have to be extremely cautious and accurate. The former World champion from Singapore had his skills there still and had continue to win a gold. The table tennis team continue to reign as most finals are actually players from the same team. Although this year they did not sweep all seven golds for the events they had swept a total of six golds. With a few days away, Singapore still stand strong in the medal tally ranking third with 31 golds. Few more interesting actions from a few more sports to come later on.

25th Sea Games continue to dazzle the spectators with more actions

Snooker pair won first surprised snooker gold.

Badminton player smacking at the sea games.

Indonesia won the Sea game gold medalist breaking the 100m record. (AFP)

Vietnam's runner is the fastest woman at the 100m Sea games. (AFP)

There are more surprises for Singapore at the games and one of them is the snooker pair that won gold beating strong rivalries. The stronger sports like swimming and table tennis continue to bring in more golds to the medal tally. At the athletic scene Indonesia runner became the fastest man again and this time breaking his own record. The fastest woman comes from Vietnam with a timing of 11.34 sec. Thailand and Vietnam now top the table as more golds come in from their stronger sport such as Taekwondo where both countries have produced World class players in this sport especially. There are actually medalists in the World Championships and even in the Olympics for this sport. This is also the first sea games whereby another component of Taekwondo which is poomsae is an event. Poomsae refers to pattern and is the artistic sport of Taekwondo. Sparring usually have weight categories and this artistic part do not have. More actions and interesting sports moments to come later on over the next few days from the 25th Sea Games. Great to go to all the players competing in the next few events over the games.

More golds and actions at the Sea games

Singapore table tennis player focusing on the game. 

Quah Ting Wen swimming at the finals.

It was another day of success for the Singapore team as the country still topped the medal tally table with 14 golds together with Vietnam. The ever strong Singapore table tennis team which has swept all seven golds for all events last Sea games continue to be at its best. Even before the competition other teams have mentioned that they are aiming for Silver as they are unlikely to beat the Singapore Team. The team won two golds today for both the Men and Women team matches. The Women swimming team for 4x100m relay has broken the record with 3min 47.5 sec and won the gold. The Men shooting team has won their first gold beating the traditionally stronger rivals Thailand and Vietnam in the 10m pistol shooting. In today's highlight of the games, it has featured other sports such as badminton and karate even though there was no winning in some of the  games, the broadcast has shown somewhat a kind of support to these teams. At least now more sports are featured which is good. More people can get to know more about other sports via the highlights and it is also showing recognition for these sports.

Singapore topped the medal tally table

Singapore shooter Goh Jia Yi competing in the Women's 10m air rifle event. (AFP)

Singapore swimmers bringing glory to the country at the Sea Games. (AFP)

It was a great start for Singapore at the Sea Games hosted in Laos. Singapore topped the medal tally table with 11 golds ahead of the rest of the countries and these golds came from the usually strong sports of swimming, air rifle shooting, etc. The swimming team bagged 5 golds at the first day and records were broken at the games. The soccer team has also made it into the semi-finals together with host country team after a 0-0 draw. Both teams were very happy as you can seen from the cheers and expression of the crowd and the coaches. More actions will be updated in the next posts as the players played their best at the Sea games. As usual, in this Sea games though I agree it is good that we feature the sports that we are good at to show the support and encouragement, I would also like to have more glimpse of actions of other sports at the games. It is after all the Sea games, not just table tennis, swimming or air rifle shooting.