An open letter to our supporters
Dear Supporter,
We would like to thank you for your support for SGYouthOlympics.Com and our Facebook group, the online campaign to support the Singapore Youth Olympic Games 2010 bid.
We would like to remind you that the results for the postal vote will be announced on Thursday 21 February 2008, 7pm Singapore Time, 11am UTC. The winning city will be announced by IOC President Jacques Rogge in a live web cast on www.olympic.org from the Olympic Museum in Lausanne. The direct link to the web cast will also be available on our website (See sidebar on the right).
There will be a gathering on the Padang in the City Hall area, from 6pm to 8pm where the webcast of the live announcement will also be broadcast. I strongly urge all of you to turn up, show your support and join in the celebrations if we win the bid. I humbly suggest that you dress in the colours of red and white! If you cannot turn up, the results will also be available from Channel News Asia at 7pm.
I hope we can win the bid, but whatever the results, Singapore has already won in a different way. I have met people when I first started out who were very much skeptical of the support I would be able to garner. The support for the bid has been overwhelming and exceptionally strong, proving our critics wrong. As of the 19th of February, we have 4709 members on our Facebook group, and 137 registered websites and 159 registered email addresses. We have seen the surge of activities on the community front, with businesses, social groups, schools and people from all walks of life converging for the sole aim of supporting the bid. I doubt there has ever been another event that has drawn us Singaporeans together like this. I am proud to be part of this, and to be a Singaporean.
I would like to once again thank you for your continued support and hope you will remember our bid for the SYOG2010. I would also like to thank people like the leaders of the many community groups and businesses, and the YOGers who have approached us to show their support and do their part. We should also not forget the wonderful people in MCYS and SNOC who have worked very hard to make this possible. Me and Ridzuan would like to thank Mr Teo Ser Luck, Parliamentary Secretary MCYS, for the encouragement and support when we first started out. Lastly, we thank our sponsors, Splazz-Solutions, for making this possible. We will continue to provide unofficial coverage of the Youth Olympic Games even beyond the bid.
Remember, shout it out clear, shout it out loud. I want to hear everyone scream when we win. I want to hear it all the way here in London. Bring the house down. We might be small, but we are mighty. 
Faithfully,
Ivan Gn
SGYouthOlympics.Com
Ivan @ February 20, 2008
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“…hear everyone scream when we win.”
You mean “IF” we win, not “WHEN” we win. Don’t be so presumptuous. Singapore has no divine right to win this bid.
I will not change what I have written as I do think it’s just a matter of language expression, “when” can also be used for uncertainty. You are right we have no divine right to win, but I don’t think I have even been presumptuous in the months running up to the results, nor will I ever be here. I believe we have done our best, and in the international realm of politics, sometimes these decisions are beyond us.
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