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Sunday, March 26, 2006
final clean sweep
221 Australia
110 England
86 Canada
50 India
38 South Africa
31 New Zealand
29 Malaysia
29 Scotland
22 Jamaica
19 Wales
18 Kenya
18 Singapore
This is the final medal standings for the Melbourne Commonwealth Games 2006. Canada sits at 3rd, Malaysia at 7th, Singapore at 11th. Dare I say it, the Games was a success. Now, let's wait for the 2010 CG at New Delhi, India. This will be the second time an Asian city hosts the CG after Kuala Lumpur in 1998. Apparently, Singapore is pending whether to bid for the 2014 CG. Halifax in Canada has confirmed its bid for the 2014 CG, but if it does not go through, Toronto will bid for the 2018 CG. Sweet, even though it's like 10 years away.
For one thing, Singapore did better than in 2002, where it got 13 medals. SECOND CLEAN SWEEP FOR SINGAPORE IN THE WOMEN'S SINGLES TABLE TENNIS! The bronze medal cam easy, compared to the final game where Li Jiawei and Zhang Xueling fought it out in 7 tense matches, to see the latter take the gold. Singapore scored brilliantly in table tennis, which it took 4 out of the 8 golds and 11 out of the 24 medals on offer, and surprisingly shooting (not badminton, which I thought was Singapore's next big sport). I still love the Singapore Swim team even though medals are rare at international events.
Malaysia and Canada shined with more diverse sports. Malaysia did well in badminton, gymnastics rythmic, shooting and weightlifting, while Canada gained medals (though not much gold ones) in aquatics diving, swimming, gymnastics artistic and rythmic, athletics, shooting and weightlifting. One Canadian created Games history when she got gold in all 5 disciplines of gymnastics rythmic, and her 6 gold medals (another in a team event) equals the record at a single Games set by other top athletes.
I see that Asia is rising as the next big thing in sports. India is coming up, and so are Asian nations like Malaysia and Singapore. When the time comes for the Beijing Olympics 2008, be sure to expect China sweeping medals throughout, and India, Korea and Japan fighting for them too.
After close to two weeks of posting medal tallys, this is finally over. I can now take a break from blogging, study for my Finals, and do my assignments. Out.
110 England
86 Canada
50 India
38 South Africa
31 New Zealand
29 Malaysia
29 Scotland
22 Jamaica
19 Wales
18 Kenya
18 Singapore
This is the final medal standings for the Melbourne Commonwealth Games 2006. Canada sits at 3rd, Malaysia at 7th, Singapore at 11th. Dare I say it, the Games was a success. Now, let's wait for the 2010 CG at New Delhi, India. This will be the second time an Asian city hosts the CG after Kuala Lumpur in 1998. Apparently, Singapore is pending whether to bid for the 2014 CG. Halifax in Canada has confirmed its bid for the 2014 CG, but if it does not go through, Toronto will bid for the 2018 CG. Sweet, even though it's like 10 years away.
For one thing, Singapore did better than in 2002, where it got 13 medals. SECOND CLEAN SWEEP FOR SINGAPORE IN THE WOMEN'S SINGLES TABLE TENNIS! The bronze medal cam easy, compared to the final game where Li Jiawei and Zhang Xueling fought it out in 7 tense matches, to see the latter take the gold. Singapore scored brilliantly in table tennis, which it took 4 out of the 8 golds and 11 out of the 24 medals on offer, and surprisingly shooting (not badminton, which I thought was Singapore's next big sport). I still love the Singapore Swim team even though medals are rare at international events.
Malaysia and Canada shined with more diverse sports. Malaysia did well in badminton, gymnastics rythmic, shooting and weightlifting, while Canada gained medals (though not much gold ones) in aquatics diving, swimming, gymnastics artistic and rythmic, athletics, shooting and weightlifting. One Canadian created Games history when she got gold in all 5 disciplines of gymnastics rythmic, and her 6 gold medals (another in a team event) equals the record at a single Games set by other top athletes.
I see that Asia is rising as the next big thing in sports. India is coming up, and so are Asian nations like Malaysia and Singapore. When the time comes for the Beijing Olympics 2008, be sure to expect China sweeping medals throughout, and India, Korea and Japan fighting for them too.
After close to two weeks of posting medal tallys, this is finally over. I can now take a break from blogging, study for my Finals, and do my assignments. Out.