Audrey clinched Singapore's sixth

Sixth medal - Bronze
Girls' Techno 293 Windsurfing event
Surfer: Audrey Yong, 15

Audrey finished third in place with 43 points, while the gold medalist finished with 22 points.

Singapore's sailing campaign at the Youth Olympic Games ended on a disappointing note after windsurfer Audrey Yong emerged the only medal winner at the East Coast Park on Wednesday afternoon.

Darren, 16, who had been Singapore's main gold-medal hope, was 12th in the final race of the 12-race regatta. He finished seventh overall on 78 points.
The double Byte world champion ended his campaign 34 points behind winner Ian Barrows of the US Virgin Islands.

Audrey, 15, who started the day in fifth place, finished third in the last race of the Girls Techno 293, behind Veronica Fanciulli of Italy and Anastasiya Valkevic of Belarus.

Audrey had ensured that the Republic did not leave empty-handed during the medal ceremony at the National Sailing Centre (NSC).
The Mayflower Secondary student, fifth overall before yesterday's race, crossed the finish line to leapfrog two competitors and clinch the Techno 293 bronze.
The sight of her arriving, with the Singapore flag stuck at the top of her sail, was marked by delighted screams from the YOG volunteers at the NSC.
Singapore sailing stuffs even waved pom-poms to welcome her.

Added Audrey, the 2009 Asian Youth Games bronze medallist: 'I felt like an underdog throughout this competition. But this shows that it can be your time to shine if you put in the hard work.'



Cubs 4-1 Montenegro for Captain, Coach & Country

Seventh medal - Bronze
Football
Singapore's Under-15 Football Team

Cubs doing the fishing celebration as they scored their 3rd goal, leading Montenegro 3-1 in the second half.
They had seen the 'fishing' celebration - in which Icelandic club Stjarnan's players mimic the catching of a big fish - on YouTube. So striker Muhaimin Suhaimi decided that it would be a good idea to use it during the Games.

The Cubs did it for captain Jeffrey Lightfoot, sent to hospital with a bloodied face just minutes into the game.

They also did it for David Sivalingam, their former coach who died of a heart attack last year.

But most importantly, they did it for themselves, three days after a demoralising semi-final loss to Haiti that crushed the host nation's hopes of a Youth Olympics gold medal.

Redemption arrived for Singapore's Under-15 football team yesterday, courtesy of a thumping 4-1 win over Montenegro in their play-off for third place at the Jalan Besar Stadium.


Hanafi, who failed to find the net in Singapore's three earlier matches, scored twice in front of a crowd that was visibly smaller than the 6,000-strong throng that had packed Jalan Besar Stadium to watch Singapore beat Montenegro 3-2 last Tuesday and lose 0-2 to Haiti in the semi-finals on Sunday.

Singapore responded appropriately by taking just six minutes to break the deadlock through Hanafi, who picked up a pass and brushed aside his markers before slotting the ball past Montenegro goalkeeper Marko Kordic.

However, the Cubs' joy was short-lived. Two minutes after the goal, skipper Jeffrey Lightfoot suffered a bad cut on his head and had to be substituted.
The situation worsened two minutes later when Montenegro equalised through Jovan Baosic. The defender was unmarked when a free-kick was floated in and had all the time in the world to power his header past Singapore keeper Fashah Rosedin.

The match ended 1-1 at half-time.

5 minutes later in the Second half, Hanafi scored his second goal of the match and tournament when he received Bryan Neubronner's cross at the edge of Montenegro box and slammed his shot past Kordic.

Referee Norbert Hauata spotted a Montenegro player tugging at the jersey of one of the Singapore players, thus a penalty was given in the 56th minute.
Midfielder Ammirul Mazlan did not let us down, he sent Kordic the wrong way to give Singapore a comfortable lead of 3-1.

Ammirul then made it a night to remember for the Cubs and the Jalan Besar faithful when he headed Hanafi's 65th-minute free-kick into the Montenegro net to make it 4-1.



SHENG's views

Seven is most probably the amount of medals Singapore will receive and seventh would probably be the last in this inaugural Youth Olympic Games event.
Having at least a participant in all 26 sports, Singapore ended with seven medals - 2 of which from Taekwondo, 1 each from Swimming, Archery, Table Tennis, Sailing & Football.
Singaporeans Youth Athletics learnt their lessons and gained experiences through their defeats and losses. They ought to feel disappointed, losing after putting in their best and efforts, but at the same time, feel proud and contented for being able to take part in it.
Most importantly, know that it's not over yet, there's a longer path behind.
Memories will stay in them and in the future, they will rise again as Singapore's pride in the Olympics.

To sum up..

On day 2, Daryl won Singapore's first medal by defeating Myanmar's taekwondo exponent.
He had never imagined that he would create history by becoming Singapore's first medalist in the inaugural Youth Olympic Games.

On the same day 2, Shafinas made a clean sweep in the quarter-finals, scoring 9-0 against her Kiribatian opponent. She's a remarkable feat, being a netball player for 4 years in Singapore Sports School, she took up this sport again after giving up on it over studies
Two months after rejoining, she win gold at the Singapore Elite Youth Champs and silver at Asian Cities Gold Cup.

Raffles Institution student, Rainer Ng clocked a time of 26.45, merely 0.09 seconds behind winner, and clinched Singapore's first silver.
He was supposed to take his A levels this year, but he stopped school for this. It's all worth it.

On day 5, Archer Abdud won the 4th medal and also the 3rd bronze, after winning with his turkey teammate in the mixed team relay. Needed a perfect score of 20 to win their Bangladeshi and Spain opponent, Abdud's teammate Elif shot a 10.
Abdud, under pressure, shot a 10 too, winning the bronze medal with a high-score of 20-19,

Day 8, Isabelle Li brought us to watch her in the Women Table Tennis Single's final.
She defeated her Thai opponent in quarter-finals 4-0 and made it to the finals.
In the final, she faced China's top seed and World Under-15 Number 1, Gu Yuting.
She gave her all in the match, but was apparently no match for World Number 1.
Nonetheless, she still did us proud.

Singapore's Top seed and Junior World Champion Sailer, Darren Choy, finished 7th overall in his face. Causing disappointment not just to people around him, but most to himself.

On day 8, Audrey started off her race as 5th and ended 3rd overall, clinching Singapore's 6th medal and 4th Bronze.

On day 8 night, Singapore faced Haiti in the semi-finals and lost 2-0.
Though the Cubs crushed Singapore's hope for first gold, they managed to rescued some pride by earning the Bronze medal by beating Montenegro 4-1 on day 10 night.