SINGAPORE — Here is a round-up of sports events and developments in Singapore in the past week (29 August to 4 September):
Defending Singapore Premier League (SPL) champions Lion City Sailors suffered a 1-3 defeat by Geylang International at Jalan Besar Stadium on Sunday (4 September), allowing second-placed Albirex Niigata (Singapore) to draw level on points at the top of the table.
Goals from Vincent Bezecourt (12th and 36th minutes) and Hazzuwan Halim (43rd) gave Geylang their third win on the trot, erasing an early goal by Maxime Lestienne (8th) for the Sailors.
Albirex stayed second on goal difference after a 5-3 win over Balestier Khalsa at Toa Payoh Stadium on Friday. Kodai Tanaka scored four goals (49th, 62nd, 75th, 84th) while Masaya Idetsu (81st) added the fifth for the visitors. Balestier replied through Shuhei Hoshino (31st, 54th) and Kuraba Kondo (56th).
On Saturday, third-placed Tampines Rovers thrashed Young Lions 7-0 at Jalan Besar Stadium, with goals from Kyoga Nakamura (24th), Yasir Hanapi (48th), Zehrudin Mehmedovic (55th), Boris Kopitovic (63rd, 67th), Taufik Suparno (65th) and Amir Mirza (82nd).
Meanwhile, Hougang United drew 3-3 with Tanjong Pagar United at Hougang Stadium. The hosts scored through Shawal Anuar (8th, 40th) and Pedro Bortoluzo (90th), while Tanjong Pagar replied through Daniel Bennett (25th), Shodai Nishikawa (30th) and Reo Nishiguchi (31st).
Bennett’s goal makes the 44-year-old veteran defender the oldest player to have scored in SPL history, eclipsing Aleksandar Duric’s record (43 years 284 days old) set in 2014.
Singapore booked their place in the Asian Netball Championships semi-finals with a 96-10 win over Maldives at the OCBC Arena on Sunday (4 September), finishing top of Group B.
With veteran goal shooter Charmaine Soh suffering a tournament-ending injury in their opener against Japan on Saturday, Singapore called up Goh Wei Ping as Soh’s replacement. In her international debut, 21-year-old Goh contributed 30 goals on an 83 per cent conversion rate.
Hong Kong also secured their semi-final spot after beating Thailand 56-29 to top Group D. In the other matches of the day, the Philippines (Group A) and Brunei (Group C) staved off spirited comebacks from their opponents, defeating India (45-41) and Taiwan (38-34) respectively.
Round Two of the championships will see the top team of each group drawn into the same pool, where they will play group matches against one another. Singapore will face Hong Kong in Round 2 on Tuesday.
After three days of action, the JSSL Singapore Professional Academy 7s youth football tournament ended on Sunday (4 September) with 33 champions from six different countries walking away with trophies in their respective categories, ranging from Under-6 to Pro-16.
In the Pro-16 category, Tottenham Hotspur claimed the title after a 1-0 win against Valencia. Meanwhile, JSSL FC won the Paul Parker Trophy after accumulating the most points from their top-placed teams.
The tournament – with former Manchester United midfielder Michael Carrick as the guest-of-honour – saw participation from more than 250 teams from 12 countries. Professional clubs such as Tottenham Hotspur, Valencia, JSSL FC, Bangkok United, Melbourne City and Johor Darul Ta’zim featured in the tournament.
The tournament will return next year from 7 to 9 April.
The TriFactor Triathlon Singapore was held at East Coast Park on Sunday (4 September) with over 1,200 triathletes taking part in the event, which was held for the first time since 2019.
A total of 20 elite triathletes competed in the concurrent National Sprint Championship (750m swim, 20km bike, 5km run), with Luke Chua winning the men’s title in 1hr 26sec, just two seconds ahead of Bryce Chong. Cedric Chua was third in 1:00:51.
The Philippines’ Raven Alcoseba won the women’s title in 1:06:46, while Priscila Goh was the fastest Singaporean women’s athlete in finishing third.
In celebration of 12 years of Formula One racing in Singapore, DZ Engineering SRL – the company which brought the homogenous lighting system to the night race – will be organising a photographic exhibition “Twelve Years of Lights and Racing in the Lion City” at The Arts House from 28 September to 3 October.
The exhibition seeks to reveal the evolution of the Singapore F1 Grand Prix through the 12 seasons in which it was held in the city-state, and is curated by Nadia Stefanel for the Dino Zoli Foundation. It features the works of Italian photographer Flavio Mazzi, who has covered over 450 F1 Grands Prix.
The Project is supported and promoted by the Italian Embassy in Singapore, Italia-ASEAN, EuroCham, and the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Singapore. Admission is free.
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Ukraine on Sunday accused Russia of causing sweeping power cuts in the east of the country, as Kyiv announced fresh gains in its counter-offensive, including the recapture of the key city of Izyum.
Russia announced Saturday it was pulling back troops from the eastern Kharkiv region of Ukraine as Kyiv announced its troops had seized a key logistics hub in a lightning counter-offensive.
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Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson's left wing bloc was neck-and-neck with the opposition right-wing in Sunday's general election amid a far-right surge, with votes in more than three-quarters of electoral districts counted. The right wing bloc was credited with a majority of 175 of 349 seats in parliament, with the left bloc trailing with 174. Earlier, two exit polls had given the left-wing bloc a slim lead. Conservative Moderates leader Ulf Kristersson, who is challenging Andersson for the post of prime minister, and two other smaller right-wing parties have for the first time tied up with the anti-immigration and nationalist Sweden Democrats, which looked set to post their best election score yet. The far-right party was seen garnering around 20.7 percent of votes which, if confirmed, would for the first time make them the country's second-biggest party, overtaking the Moderates, the traditional leaders of the right-wing bloc. The election campaign has been dominated by issues close to right-wing voters, including rising gang shootings, immigration and integration issues. While Andersson's Social Democrats looked set to remain the country's biggest party with 30.4 percent, the Moderates appeared to slip to third position, with 19 percent. That would be a heavy blow to Kristersson, who orchestrated a major shift in Swedish politics by initiating exploratory talks in 2019 with the Sweden Democrats, long treated as "pariahs" by other political parties. The two other small right-wing parties, the Christian Democrats and to a lesser extent the Liberals, later followed suit. – 'A nail-biter' – Sweden Democrat party members gathered for an election-night rally erupted in cheers and waved party flags as the exit polls were flashed on to a large screen. Party secretary Richard Jomshof told public television SVT he "didn't believe" that other parties would be able to freeze out his party again and expected to have a strong influence on Swedish politics. "We are so big now … it is clear we should have a spot on parliamentary committees", he said. If the right-wing bloc were to emerge victorious, "we have a chance to be an active part of a government that would move politics in a completely different direction". As votes were being counted across the country, Social Democrat party campaigner Mille Mikael Isberg told AFP the election race was "a nail-biter". Prime Minister Andersson, a 55-year-old former finance minister, was vying to build a government with the support of the small Left, Centre and Green parties. The Social Democrats have governed Sweden since 2014 and Andersson enjoys broad support among Swedes. She consistently led Kristersson by a wide margin in opinion polls. – 'Enormous shift' – Both blocs are beset by internal divisions that could lead to lengthy negotiations to build a coalition government. But for a number of reasons there is "pressure to have a united and effective government" in place quickly, said political scientist Katarina Barrling. Sweden faces a looming economic crisis, is in the midst of a historic NATO application process and is due to take over the EU presidency in 2023. The end of the Sweden Democrats' political isolation, and the prospect of it becoming the biggest right-wing party, is "an enormous shift in Swedish society", said Anders Lindberg, an editorialist at left-wing tabloid Aftonbladet. Born out of a neo-Nazi movement at the end of the 1980s, the Sweden Democrats entered parliament in 2010 with 5.7 percent of votes. They won 17.5 percent in 2018. The party's rise has come alongside a large influx of immigrants, with the country of around 10 million people taking in almost half a million asylum seekers in a decade. It also comes as Sweden struggles to combat escalating gang shootings attributed to battles over the sales of drugs and weapons. Crime is seen as one of far-right voters' top concerns. The country now tops European statistics for firearm deaths. While the violence was once contained to locations frequented by criminals, it has spread to public spaces such as parks and shopping centres, sparking concern among ordinary Swedes in a country long known as safe and peaceful. jll-bur/po/jj
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Russia announced Saturday it was pulling back troops from the eastern Kharkiv region of Ukraine as Kyiv announced its troops had seized a key logistics hub in a lightning counter-offensive. A Moscow-backed separatist leader in the east meanwhile said Russian forces were fighting "difficult" battles against Kyiv's troops in several parts of eastern Donetsk region. A Ukrainian official also said Kyiv's troops were closing in on the eastern city of Lysychansk, captured by Russian troops after fierce artillery battles in July. Moscow's announcement of the pull back alongside Kyiv's claim to have entered the town of Kupiansk are the most significant shifts in battlefield dynamics after months of fighting in eastern Ukraine that has been dominated by Moscow. "A decision was made to regroup Russian troops stationed in the Balakliya and Izyum regions to bolster efforts along the Donetsk front," Russia's defence ministry said in a statement. News of the draw down came just after Ukrainian special forces published images on social media showing camouflage-clad officers with automatic weapons "in Kupiansk". The town of some 27,000 people — which was captured with in the first week of Russia's invasion launched on February 24 — "was and will always be Ukrainian," the special forces said. But observers expect Ukrainian forces to make further gains in the Kharkiv region, which borders Russia and has been either controlled by Russia or shelled by its artillery for months. – 'Astonishing' advance – There was no official confirmation that Kyiv's troops had also routed Russian forces from Iyzum — an important staging ground for Russia's war effort — with a pre-war population of around 45,000 people. But images flooding social media appeared to show Ukrainian forces within the city and Russian observers of the conflict said there were initial reports Moscow's army had already withdrawn. "Ukrainian troops are advancing in eastern Ukraine, liberating more cities and villages. Their courage coupled with Western military support brings astonishing results," foreign ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko said in a statement on social media. "It's crucial to keep sending arms to Ukraine. Defeating Russia on the battlefield means winning peace in Ukraine," he added. His assessment came after President Volodymyr Zelensky said late Friday his troops had already retaken some 30 towns and villages in the northeastern Kharkiv region. Ukraine's push appears to have caught Russian troops largely off guard. One day before Russia announced its three-day operation to redeploy forces from Kharkiv to the industrial Donbas region further south it said it was dispatching reinforcements to Kharkiv. State media on Friday published footage of Russian tanks, artillery and support vehicles moving in columns on dirt roads moving towards Kharkiv. – 'Frightening' – The capture of urban hubs like Kupiansk and Izyum would be a significant blow to Russia's ability to resupply its positions on the eastern frontline and could see Russia's hold over the east severely diminished. In one village captured by the advancing Ukrainians, electric pylons were toppled and cables lay across the ground and houses were gutted, AFP journalists reported. On the road towards the recaptured town of Balakliya, the journalists saw abandoned Russian armour painted with the letter "Z" — a symbol of Russia's invasion. Ukrainian troops were also advancing along portions of the southern front line, a spokesperson said Saturday, in some regions by dozens of kilometres, into territory captured by Russian troops at the beginning of the invasion. Russian news agencies meanwhile reported six large explosions in Nova Kakhovka, a town held by Russian troops in the southern Kherson region. Meanwhile in the eastern Donetsk region, rebel leader Denis Pushilin said the situation in the town of Lyman was "very difficult" and that there was also fighting in "a number of other localities," particularly in the northern part of the region. – 'We will stand by Ukraine' – German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock arrived in the Ukrainian capital on Saturday for a surprise visit, which she said was to demonstrate Berlin's support for Ukraine. It came a week after Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmygal's trip to Berlin where he had repeated Kyiv's call for weapons. Baerbock pledged continued "deliveries of weapons, and with humanitarian and financial support". Over recent weeks Germany has sent an array of weapons to Kyiv, supplementing other Western-supplied weapons that observers say have hurt Russia's supply and command abilities. Baerbock's visit follows US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's, during which he promised a nearly $3 billion military package for Ukraine. In a meeting in Brussels with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Blinken said Russia's push to send reinforcements showed Moscow was paying "huge costs" in its bid to capture and then hold Ukrainian territory. However, Russian forces were still inflicting serious damage with a campaign of shelling in Kharkiv city and in the industrial region of Donbas in the east. The head of the Kharkiv region, Oleg Synegubov, said Russian shelling Saturday on the Kholodnogirskiy district of the city had left at least one person dead and two more injured. Earlier, Pavlo Kyrylenko, the head of the Donetsk region, which is part of Donbas, said Russian shelling had left two dead. Concerns have also been rising in recent days over fresh shelling near Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in the south of the country. The International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday recent attacks near the plant had compromised the safe operation of the facility. French President Emmanuel spoke with Zelensky on Saturday and said the situation at the plant was "worrying," according to the Elysee. The Ukraine leader again said the site should demilitarised during the call, according to a tweet. bur-jbr/cdw
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