SINGAPORE TO HOLD EXTREME SPORTS COMPETITION

By Zakaria Abdul Wahab

SINGAPORE, Aug 28 (Bernama) -- Singapore will be making sports history
tomorrow when it holds the inaugural two-day extreme sports competition at
the new skate park at East Coast here.

The S$8 million Xtreme SkatePark @ East Coast will be launched by Prime
Minister Lee Hsien Loong Saturday.

To mark the occasion, the skate park will be hosting the inaugural Singapore
Extreme Championship in Aggressive In-line Skating, BMX Freestyling and
Skateboarding.

About 80 participants from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Hong
Kong, Philippines and Brunei will compete in the championship.

“It is the first time such an extreme sports competition is being held in
Singapore,” said a joint statement by National Parks Board, the National
Youth Council and the Community Development, Youth and Sports Ministry which
developed the skate park project.

It is also the first and only skate park in Singapore of world class
competition standards, it added.

-- BERNAMA