“Congratulations to our women’s team for putting us on the world map!”
SINGAPORE — In a happy accident, the president of the Tchoukball Association of Singapore, Delane Lim, discovered that the Singapore women’s team is ranked the highest in the world through a Facebook post on Jan 27.
The team also discovered it’d held the pole position for around a month. The joyful discovery set off a flurry of congratulations to the women’s team, as this is the first time they’ve reached such an achievement, besting the powerful Chinese Taipei team to take first place.that they don’t check on world rankings, which are updated once a year.
What is Tchoukball anyway? Popular in Singapore, Switzerland, and Taiwan, it’s an indoor sport created in the 1970s inby a man named Hermann Brandt, who was concerned over the injuries athletes received due to aggression and physical contact. The sport contains elements of squash, netball, and handball.The team received an outpouring of congratulations and support from netizens for their achievement.
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