SINGAPORE'S top male and female triathletes have been slapped with a competition ban for being caught alone in a hotel room at the Asian Beach Games in Bali last October.

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well no doubt they did break the rule, there is code of conduct and yes technically they should all be stood by. I dont know if they finished their events at the time of incident, but if they have, and they are two adults, well the lady is, the guy almost is.

And at 18 at least, being a medicine student, RJ alumn, national athlete, i would like to believe he would know better than to do what they shouldnt do.

Been proven athletes perform with their loved ones or people who care or support is given to them. Be it from teammates or what not, so why the harshness. i am very tempted to say to the sports authorities, "take a chill pill mate" we dont live under a rock, the things our youths get exposed to, our lives and our generation differs. A different standard of care applies here, so really do they deserve the ban ? Seeing they are the best we got, how useful is that in the sea games year and their development to reach the asian standard?

well ask the folks in the tower up there!

isn't all this (article/ reaction to ban) against everything MCYS is spending to encourage Singaporeans to get married, create family, make babies?

why did this have to come to the press/ media?

now that this is out. what happens to the lives of these two individuals?

Our officials need to grow up. Unless of course, the Talibans are in charge of our sports. Another important feature to note is the stupidity of people in Singapore, starting with our local media, which goes around snapping pictures of young couples making out. It's really none of your business. There's something truly infantile and childish about our officials and our leaders when they make a big deal of young couples being intimate. Time to stop!

Crazy! What century is this already huh?

There should be no issues if both of them are above 16 years old. Studies have shown that athletes/sport men or women perform better if they can release the tension (sexual or otherwise) both before and after their events. In this case it's better and safer than going to GLCC (Geylang Country Club)Further more it's not done in full view of the public.

OK, maybe he was giving her a post-race massage or the other way round, but it is none of TAS's business. Dinah rightly stood her ground and is now taken to task because the petty official lost face.

why should they be banned for just this thing? That does not mean that they did anything wrong. So i thing that they should not be banned.

Why all the fuss? The NUS and NTU dorm are not so decent anyway so why so strict in the beach games? Give them some room..in this case..a room to talk private perhaps. People always assume the worse when a couple enters a room. Shows our prehistoric mentality in dealing with incident. Bah!

The person who discovered them is being nosey parker.