GOODBYE, sporting legend

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Dr Lau Teng Chuan died, aged 83, of stomach cancer.

He was an extraordinary man. One with many talents, all of which came through when he was a highly-respected educationist and top-ranked sports official.

When he breathed his last at the Singapore General Hospital at 5.30pm yesterday, wife Mary and his whole family were at his bedside. Soon afterwards, SMSes and e-mails flew fast among family, friends and the sporting fraternity to inform others that one of Singapore’s best-known sportsmen and officials had died.

More in The New Paper on Wednesday (May 9).