SEA Games: Schooling to think of student quake victims in today's swim

Unofficial SEA Games poster boy Joseph Schooling will swim the 50m freestyle and the 200m butterfly today as he pursues his goal of nine gold medals. The 19-year-old already sent records tumbling as he grabbed two SEA Games golds yesterday, swimming a Games record 100m freestyle of 48.58sec, and then leading the way as Singapore lowered the event's 4x200m mark. Today's swim will carry more meaning, as the country mourns the death of at least eight Singaporeans, including six schoolchildren from Tanjong Katong Primary School, who died in Friday's earthquake on Mount Kinabalu in Malaysia."It's a tragedy, it's very sad to see those kind of things happen," Schooling said. "They're going to be in the back of my mind and tomorrow I'm going to swim for all those eight people that died, along with the Malaysians also." All SEA Games venues will hold a minute's silence and flags on government buildings will fly at half-mast today, which has been declared a day of national remembrance. With reporting from AFP Photo: Reuters