No joke: Singapore athletes tickled by their 'names' on SEA Games bibs
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Some of the athletes representing Singapore at the ongoing SEA Games in Thailand were caught by surprise when they received their competition bibs.Only parts of their names had been printed by the organisers, and a few of them were tickled at the outcome.TheNo joke: Singapore athletes tickled by their 'names' on SEA Games bibs
Some of the athletes representing Singapore at the ongoing SEA Games in Thailand were caught by surprise when they received their competition bibs.Only parts of their names had been printed by the organisers, and a few of them were tickled at the outcome.The moment was captured by distance runner Soh Rui Yong and posted to TikTok on Dec 12.«We're doing bib collection now and we have some really interesting results because I don't think they got the names in order,» Soh said in the clip.The 34-year-old points out that the name on his bib «was not so bad» as it was just his French name Guillaume, which he rarely uses publicly.National 800m record holder Thiruben Thana Rajan's bib, however, simply said «Rajan».«That's my dad's name, my dad's running tomorrow,» Thiruben quipped amid laughter from some of his teammates.Muncherji Zubin Percy was also in a similar predicament with his bib reading his father's name, Percy.On the other hand, national 3,000m steeplechase record holder Vanessa Lee was handed a bib which simply read «Zhuang» — the last character of her Chinese name.«This is what my mum calls me,» she said. Read more
