Singaporean Swimmers - Joscelin Yeo, Thum Ping Tjin, Nicolette Teo, Ang Peng Siong, Desmond Koh, Quah Ting Wen, Lim Shu En Lynette, Mark Chay (Paperback)

Chapters: Joscelin Yeo, Thum Ping Tjin, Nicolette Teo, Ang Peng Siong, Desmond Koh, Quah Ting Wen, Lim Shu En Lynette, Mark Chay, Tan Lee Yu Gary, . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Joscelin Yeo Wei Ling ( ) (born 2 May 1979) is a Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) and a former competitive swimmer from Singapore. Yeo had won 40 gold medals at the Southeast Asian Games, as well as represented the Republic in the Asian Games, Commonwealth Games and Summer Olympics. Yeo was elected as a Rhodes Scholar but never took up the scholarship. Yeo began her international swimming career at 11, at the Beijing Asian Games. Since then, she has swam in every major international meet, including the Southeast Asian Games eight times, the Asian Games four times, the Olympics four times, and the Commonwealth Games three times. She ended her 16-year swimming career in early 2007. (correct as of 22 August 2009) Yeo competed in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, 1996 Atlanta Olympics, 2000 Sydney Olympics and the 2004 Athens Olympics. Her four Olympics appearances are the most by any Singaporean athlete. Yet, for a swimmer of Yeo's calibre, she never did perform to her best at any of the Olympics. Particularly after the 2000 Sydney Olympics and especially the 2004 Athens Olympics, Joscelin, along with the rest of the Singapore swimming team, were lambasted for their poor performances by the Singaporean media and even their own coaches. Yeo competed in four Asian Games. In the 1994 Hiroshima Asian Games and the 2002 Pusan Asian Games, she won the bronze twice for the 100m Butterfly. She was the only Singapore swimmer to win a medal at both Games. The 2006 Doha Asian Games was her last international competition. Yeo currently hold the record of the most gold medals in ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=8294261