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

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Leave the door opened when there's a member of the opposite sex in your room? Seems like our national athletes are being treated like kids.

Singapore claims to be a cosmopolitan society, and I believe many of us Singaporeans out there do believe we ARE part of that society, which is why news like that infuriates me.

We take 3 steps forward by hosting International events such as the upcoming Youth Olympics to show the world how sophisticated our country is, only to slip 2 steps back by rules such as this which I personally feel is a joke.

Mr Mok and Miss Chan are both adults and were not caught in a compromising position. I am sure they did their best at their race and achieved good results for themselves and their country. A reprimand should do the job, a ban is too harsh. Does this rule apply to any other sports associations in the world?

Get out of the well, keep your cane in its box and hop aboard the train into the 21st century already!

You gotta be kidding me! Sorry, but I just need to go outside and check what century we are living in. Be back in a minute.

Mr Mok & Miss Chan are said to have infringed the TAS' code of conduct prohibiting athletes of the opposite sex to be in the same room when the door is closed. Are we still living in the Dark Ages?

Since S'pore's chef-de-mission to the Games, confirmed that there is no rule pertaining to the competition that forbids male & female athletes being in the same room, no rule was actually broken. Then why the necessity to ban them?

What I find ridiculous is that most of our NSAs still have codes of conduct like that of TAS' which forbids even married athletes i.e. husband & wife from being in the same room with the door closed, even if they are just watching TV or chatting, & not 'making whoppie'.

Is being in the same room going to affect their sporting performance? Is this worse than having CMI FTs abscounding?

At least here in Aussie land, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, we know how to LIVE!
Alas, in Singapore, most people just chase their tail, and pretend to live.

Wair a minute, let us go out and check. Oh! It is a bottomless pit.

I am appalled. In Kelantan, they would only fine the couple.

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?

what have they done so wrong that they deserve this?