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Singaporeans participate in a wide variety of sports for recreation as well as for competition. Popular sports include Supercar Motorsports,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Supercars in Singapore , Lamborghini , Ferrari , Audi R8 , Maserati GranTurismo )〕 football (soccer), basketball, cricket, rugby union, swimming, badminton, and cycling. Most people live in public residential areas that often provide amenities including swimming pools, outdoor basketball courts〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Outdoor basketball courts in Singapore )〕 as well as indoor sport centres which provide facilities for badminton, squash, table tennis, american football, gymnastics, indoor basketball and volleyball, among others. Living on an island surrounded by the ocean, the people also enjoy many water activities including sailing, kayaking and waterskiing. There is also a number of avid recreational scuba divers, a prominent diving spot being the southern island Pulau Hantu, known for its coral reefs. Association football is arguably the most popular spectator sport. Singapore has its own professional football league, known as the S.League. Launched in 1996, the league now consists of 10 teams competing with each other in stadiums around the country. In 1998, 2004, 2007 and 2012 the Singapore national football team became the champion of the Tiger Cup, the premier football competition in South-East Asia. While not a major sporting power, Singapore's athletes have performed well in regional as well as international competitions, especially in table tennis, badminton, sepak takraw, bowling, sailing, silat, swimming and water polo. To date, Singapore has won two Olympic silver medals, one at the 1960 Rome Summer Olympics by weightlifter Tan Howe Liang and the other at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics in the women's double table tennis by Singapore players Li Jiawei, Feng Tianwei and Wang Yuegu. The country has come close thrice (all in women's single table-tennis, fourth-place finishes in 2000, 2004 and 2008). In the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, Singapore won 5 Gold, 2 Silver, and 10 Bronze medals in 2002. ==Recreational== Favourite Singaporean sports include outdoor sports such as football, basketball, cricket, swimming, sailing and various indoor sports such as table tennis and badminton. Most Singaporeans live in public residential areas with amenities such as public swimming pools, outdoor basketball courts and indoor sport complexes nearby. As might be expected on an island, water sports such as sailing, kayaking and water skiing are popular. Scuba diving is another recreation, particularly around the southern island of Pulau Hantu which is known for its rich coral reefs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = The Hantu Bloggers )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sport in Singapore」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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