Training in Bremen - Day 4

Today's training was in the indoors, and we saw some kids having activities and their kids program in the indoor track, and these children are so cute! Maldives sprinters did weights training, Balpreet did plyometrics and Hakeem did blocks starts into 3 hurdles, and also some German athletes did their training too.

Balpreet in action!

Hakeem's training video

It seems that Hakeem has got some problems with his lead leg landing. Lead leg will make an outwards sweep when clawing down after the hurdle. The only reason that Hakeem and I can think of is the flexibility of the muscles, that is causing the unnecessary outward swing. Any comments?

Do email me about your thoughts and suggestion to help Hakeem to correct his hurdling technique!

Enjoy the videos and come back for more updates!

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Training camp in Bremen - Day 3

It was the 3rd day in Bremen. Weather was great and therefore training was held outdoors. Balpreet's training speed and it was 6 x 60m all out sprints. She told us that she needs training partner, and so... the coaches helped her.. :)

After a hard day of training, the team manager decided to reward the athletes ...

And the drinks..

And satisfied faces....

Our Transport coordinator, Nels! he is 19 years old and 190++cm.....

Coach Hosni and Hakeem...

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Training Camp in Bremen - Day 2

28th July 2009. Today we focused on power training, so we did training indoors. There was a nice gym, with universal machines and also power lifting platforms.
We did some power training, squat jumps into sprints, 40kg x 5 jumps. Hakeem felt a little uncomfortable in the hamstring but everything still went well. Take a look at our training video..

Bremen TV station did an interview coverage on the team, interviewed Hakeem and Balpreet, on the preparations for the World Championships in Berlin. Enjoy the video :)

Hakeem's interview

Balpreet's interview

Pls stay tuned for more updates in Bremen!

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Training Camp in Bremen

The 12th IAAF World Championships is held in Berlin, from 15-23 August 2009. The organizers arranged for training camps around Germany for participating countries to be able to acclimatize before the World Champs.

Athletes from Singapore and Maldives are arranged to be train in Bremen for 3 weeks before leaving for Berlin. We stay in a hostel near to the training stadium, and its also a 5mins drive to the town.

We started training today, and the weather is reasonably good. Sunny and windy - but a little troublesome for hurdling.

Entrance of Stadium

pls enjoy the video

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AYG Singapore 2009

Today marks the end of the 1st Asian Youth Games 2009! The Opening ceremony was on the 29th of June with all participating countries, where officials and athletes witnessed the lighting of the torch and a display of mass dance and performances by our youth and junior dancers and performers from primary, secondary and JC students.

Athletics competition starts on the 30th of June, the following are the results for Day 1:

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Singapore Sports Awards 09

" For the past four decades, the Singapore Sports Awards has honoured the achievements of our country's sportsmen and sportswomen. The Awards recognises our athletes' sports accomplishments of the past year. and they express our confidence in the future for Singapore's sporting fraternity and our rising stars. "

On 19th June 2009, Singapore National Olympic Council and the Singapore Sports Council recognised Singapore's top athletes comtribution to Singapore sports and their outstanding performances in 2008, selected a list of athletes for the award presention. These awards are catagorized as follows:

• Meritorious Awards
• Sportsboy / Sportsgirl Team of the Year (Event)
• Team of the Year (Event)
• Sportsgirl of the Year
• Sportsboy of the Year
• IOC Trophy
• "Sport and the Fight against Doping"

Calvin Kang was awarded the Meritorious Award for Sportsboy (Individual). He is also the only representative from Athletics. This was due to his heavy involvements in local and overseas competitions namely: World Junior Championship, Commonwealth Youth Games, Beijing Olympics etc.

I wish that Singapore Athletics will be motivated by Calvin Kang's performances and use it as a platform to excel in local and international competitions.

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