Singapore's national artistic swimming team looking to improve in formations, underwater moves
Singapore's national artistic swimming team are looking to improve in areas such as better formations and underwater movements. The team were only put together about a year ago to prepare for the World Aquatics Championships and only started training in earnest at the end of last year after exams. Singapore finished 23rd out of 26 teams in the Team Technical preliminaries. Alif Amsyar reports.
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