50 days to ASEAN Para Games: How the public can get involved
With the 50-day countdown to the 8th ASEAN Para Games starting just on Wednesday (October 14), the Games organisers have launched a slew of activities and initiatives to get the community involved.
At a launch event held on Tuesday (October 13), the Singapore ASEAN Para Games Organising Committee (SAPGOC) unveiled the “Unbreakable” music video featuring ‘Team Singapore’ athletes: Theresa Goh (swimming), Tay Wei Ming (badminton), Jovin Tan (sailing), Khairul Anwar (football), Nurulasyiqah Mohammad Taha and Toh Sze Ning (both boccia - a game similar to petanque). The athletes will appear as well in a series of 15 posters on billboards and banners in schools and ActiveSG centres.
Grace Fu, Singapore’s Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, was a guest-of-honour at Tuesday’s 8th ASEAN Para Games launch event
The event also showcased cheer kits with temporary ‘Team Singapore’ tattoos and cheer cards that will be handed out to 100 schools, as part of the "Get RED-Y" movement. And the community got an opportunity to sew and decorate heart-shaped mini cushions for the Nila plush toys in the Gift-A-Nila initiative.
Nila, mascot of the 2015 ASEAN Games
This is the first time that Singapore is hosting the ASEAN Para Games, which will be held from Dec 3 to 9. It is a biannual multi-sport event held for ASEAN athletes with physical disabilities. The games are participated by the 11 countries located in Southeast Asia - Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor Leste and Vietnam.
Singapore National Stadium, part of the Singapore Sports Hub, venue for the 8th ASEAN Para Games
The Para Games are played by physically challenged athletes with mobility disabilities, visual disabilities, who are amputees and those with cerebral palsy. There will be 166 athletes to represent Singapore, competing for the first time in all 15 sports offered at the 8th ASEAN Para Games this December.
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A Paralympian in the women's butterfly
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