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Isabelle Li's dream run in the Youth Olympic Games table tennis girls singles competition ended with a silver medal this evening when she lost 0-4 to China's Gu Yuting in the final at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.

THE Youth Olympic Games (YOG) are now the premier tournament for the world’s young gymnasts.

THE Youth Olympics are just six days old, but the performances of the young stars in Singapore have already sent statisticians scrambling for their record books.

RUSSIAN tennis player Daria Gavrilova can always be counted on to bounce back after losing the first set. Yesterday, she did just that and claimed a big prize – the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) girls’ singles title.

FOR Chinese swimmer Tang Yi, the Youth Olympic Games will be unforgettable for six “golden” reasons. The 17-year-old yesterday claimed her fifth and sixth golds with wins in the 50m freestyle and mixed 4x100m freestyle to become the most decorated athlete at these inaugural Games.

China's Lin Sheng clinched a hard-fought upset win in the Youth Olympic Games' cadet female individual epee fencing final this evening.

Home support and light winds - despite a forecast for thunderstorms - helped local sailor Audrey Pei Lin Yong (SIN) on Tuesday at the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games.

Princess Stephanie of Monaco wants to keep a low profile at the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games, which she is attending not as a royal, but as proud mother.

MAYBE the secret lies in their Gyuvetch (a stew) recipe, or in the ingredients of their Tarator (a soup). But there has to be an explanation why Bulgarians, at the summer Olympics, have won most of their medals by throwing people around (wrestling, 67 medals) or hefting iron over their heads (weightlifting, 37 medals).

THERE were winners and there were losers, there were tears of pride and of frustration, there were temporary bruises and memories for life.