Singapore’s athletes may have garnered a total of 160 medals from the SEA Games, 42 of which were gold, but to contingent Chef de Mission Tan Eng Liang, their combined performance was “at best, satisfactory” compared to how they fared at the 2009 Games in Laos.
Speaking at a post-Games press conference held in Jakarta on Monday, Tan said that the boost in the number of gold medals won this year was largely thanks to six sports that were not offered two years ago that produced a combined 12 gold medals for Singapore. Full story
