The battle against the stopwatch: Singaporean Gary Ong stretching out his hand to receive the baton from C. Kunalan in the 4x400m trial. Together with teammates Seah Soo Lye and Ganesan Kasi, they narrowly missed the South-East Asia Games qualifying mark of 3min 14.6sec by 3.6sec in their second trial at the National Stadium. (Sept 25, 1981)