The Team Singapore athletes to the Beijing Olympics 2008 is the largest representation since the Melbourne Games in 1956.

Being among the best of Singapore, hopes are high said Chef-De-Mission Dr Tan Eng Liang, of some Olympic wins.

“Not only are we sending the largest Olympic contingent in 52 years, this is also the best-prepared team going into the Olympic games. We came so close to bringing home a medal in 2004, so expectations on Team Singapore this year will be high.

Many of our athletes have improved tremendously in the last few years and I am confident Team Singapore will give their very best at the Games.”

Singapore’s top table tennis player Li Jiawei will be the official flag bearer at the Olympic Games opening ceremony on 8 August 2008.

Team Singapore will be competing in six sports at the Beijing Olympic Games - athletics, badminton, table tennis, sailing, shooting and swimming.

Twenty-four out of the contingent of 25 athletes qualified on their own merit with swimmer Tao Li being the first Singaporean to meet the ‘A’ qualifying mark for the Olympic Games.

The Singapore women’s table tennis team of Lee Jiawei, Feng Tianwei and Wang Yuegu - is the second seed in the competition.

Singapore last won an Olympic silver medal through weightlifter Tan Howe Liang in Rome in 1960.

At the last two Olympics - in Sydney in 2000 and Athens in 2004 - Singapore came close to winning a medal.

With Project 0812 - a joint effort by the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports, the Singapore Sports Council and the Singapore National Olympic Council, to identify and nurture athletes capable of achieving success at the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Olympic Games – Singapore might just get that Olympic boost it has been looking for. 

Team Singapore Atheletes