7 (out of 302) gold medals were given out on the first competition day. Another 7 silver and 9 bronze medals found their new owners. Will Singapore (finally) get ours this year?

On the badminton courts, Xing Aiying lost to Olga Konon of Belarus in the Women’s Singles Round of 64 on Saturday. Li Yujia and Jiang Yanmei will meet MANGKALAKIRI Mesinee Mangkalakiri and Eva Lee of the United States on Sunday at 12.05pm in the Women’s Doubles Round of 16 while Susilo will compete with World No 2 Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia in the Men’s Singles Round of 32 at 10am on Monday.

Tao Li broke an Asian record for the Women’s 100 metres butterfly and will enter the semis on Sunday. Wheet. I was most amused when I saw her on TV saying she had to stay away from KFC in preparation for the competition. On the way to Beijing, SIA went the extra mile to prepare special (read: healthy and nutritious) meals for the athletes on board. She was quoted as saying “I don’t really like the food.” *slaps forehead

While we’re on this, I wish that Team Singapore would do something to improve their website. Apart from cajoling the public to send in their well wishes, they could perhaps feature our athletes in a more prominent manner.

There’s a dedicated page to feature “Our Medallists”. It even allows you to sort by discipline and medal type. Are you kidding me? We’ll be over the moon if Team Singapore comes home with a single medal, and you have that sorting function there?

All right, it could be the usual content management template used for other Games where we actually have enough medals to sort. If Team Singapore wants to “foster closer relations when rallying support for our athletes when they compete for top sporting accolades“, it would be nice for the rest of us to know who’s competing in what.