SINGAPORE – As Singaporean rower Saiyidah Aisyah emerged from her boat on April 21, the biggest day of her Olympic qualification campaign, she could not help but feel upset about how her race had gone. Nerves got the better of her on Tangeum Lake in Chungju, South Korea, where the Asian and Oceanian Olympic Qualification Regatta was taking place. She.
Rower Saiyidah Aisyah becomes the latest Team Singapore athlete to secure her ticket to the Paris Olympics. She finished sixth in the women’s 2,000m lightweight single sculls event at a continental Olympic qualifying regatta in the South Korean city of Chungju on Sunday (Apr 21). Stanley Ho reports.