Bowling Correspondent In The Making?
AMF World Cup press release-LONDON, ENGLAND, November 19, 2004 – National team bowlers Remy Ong and Valerie Teo will represent host nation Singapore next month at the 2004 AMF Bowling World Cup. The World Cup will be held December 5-12 at the SuperBowl SAFRA Mount Faber facility in Singapore.
Ong is making his third trip to the AMF World Cup, while Teo is going for the second time. Ong was runner-up to Finland’s Mika Luoto in 2002 when the World Cup was in held in Latvia, after finishing tied for fifth in Thailand in 2001. Teo also competed in Latvia, where she finished 27th.
Both bowlers have scored important wins already this year. Ong won the Qatar Open and Guam Open in recent months, while Teo captured two gold medals in the Asian Youth Championships in February.
Ong finished second in 2002 after winning three gold medals in the Asian Games in Pusan, Korea. Following those successes, however, he experienced a downturn that now appears to be over. “Perhaps I do well only in even-numbered years,” he jokingly told Straits Times reporter Alvin Foo.
If that is the case, Ong has something in common with Paeng Nepomuceno of the Philippines. All four of Paeng’s World Cup crowns were won in Olympic years (1976, 1980, 1992 and 1996).
Teo cut back on her competitive schedule after the Asian Youth Championships so she could pursue her studies. The former Sportsgirl of the Year hopes to become a physician when her athletic career is over.
At press time, 96 nations had confirmed participation in the 2004 AMF World Cup and named their representatives, including newcomers Afghanistan, Libya, Nigeria, Slovakia and Tajikistan. That puts the 2004 edition on track to set a new mark for number of countries represented in any given year. The current record was set in 2000 in Lisbon, Portugal, when 88 countries sent bowlers.
posted by Al @ 11:21 am
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