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Posted by singaporedaily on August 17th, 2008
Good showing Feng Tianwei and Li Jiawei! Brace yourselves for the final clash tonite!
The China born duo are set to end Singapore’s 48 year Olympic medal drought since Tan Howe Liang’s weight-lifting medal in 1960 tonight! The Singapore Table Tennis Association at 297C Lorong 6 Toa Payoh will be screening the match live at 730pm and all are invited. In an unprecedented move, even the telecast of the National Day Rally Speech in English has been postponed till tomorrow. Let’s cheer the Singapore team on!
Here’s a brief introduction to the 21 year old Feng Tianwei. She arrived in Singapore in April 2007. Then, she had been part of China’s national junior squad for three years. After arriving in Singapore, within 8 months, her international rank of 73 shot to the 12th spot on the best woman player in the International Table Tennis Federation’s (ITTF) monthly list. 62 spots up! The Singapore Sports Fan has Tianwei’s little bio gathered there.
Singapore’s national table tennis coach is Liu Guodong, also a Chinese national who is the brother of the head coach of the Chinese Men’s team, Liu Guoliang.
While the Chinese team faces pressure from a home crowd, the Singapore team consisting of China nationals may face harsh criticism from their fellow countrymen. Arguably, this is something they have to face for having decided to make Singapore their home.
Given Jiawei’s recent flag dragging fiasco, Tianwei looks set to be Singapore’s favourite Olympic darling. Personally, I have never understood why the breakup of Jiawei and Ronald should make the front page of the Home section of Straits Times. Well nobody’s private life should be, but that’s really my own take.
I digressed. Many Singaporeans have griped about how FTs have replaced us. Yet when we look at athletics and jobs such as construction, estate maintenance and mechanics, it is hard to not notice that these positions are mostly taken up by FTs. When it comes to this, can we blame the FTs for having replaced/displaced us? What Singaporeans would not want do, the FTs will.
The first impression that comes to one’s mind when they learn that a local is in sports is, the local comes from a relatively wealthy family. Hence they can deviate from the Singaporean study, graduate, work, marry, make babies cycle. Granted, the atheletes train hard to get to where they are. At the same time, we know that we don’t have too many successful Singaporean atheletes. The government may have taken the initiative to build a sports school to nurture talent but is this sufficient? ”Importing” atheletes is a shortcut. Is that the only way out?
Ian On The Red Dot had questioned if Michael Phelp, the child with ADHD would not have been the legend he is today if he were born in Singapore. My answer is no.
It takes more than a sports school to make worthy atheletes.
To our first Olympic medal in 48 years,
the B
P.S. I could eat 3 fried egg sandwiches with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions, and mayonnaise, 5 egg omelets, grits, French toast with powdered sugar, chocolate pancakes, kilos of pasta with tomato sauce, large ham, cheese, and mayo sandwiches on white bread, pizzas and barrels of energy drinks, heighten my cholesterol level and clog my arteries and still not be of Olympic material.
August 18th, 2008 at 2:30 am
As there’s nothing else to be proud of, the euphoria of some Singaporeans has reached the state of orgasm. Please refer to http://feedmetothefish.blogspot.com/
What’s the big deal in having China Team 2 beats Team Korea?
As expected, China Team 1 beat China Team 2 while PM, in his rally speech, said that jobs generated from casinos will be 20,000 instead of 35,000 as promised earlier. What else is new?
If we can buy sex, we can buy medals. And with the casinos, I guess anything goes! As stated in the last election rally, some are real good at ‘buying and fixing”!
Instead of self-aggrandizing propaganda of buying Olympic medal hopefuls which cost taxpayers much, it’s time they get real and solve the problems of ordinary people with rising costs and inflation problems! If you can hardly make ends meet, winning medals don’t mean squat!
While trying to make people forget economic pain with purchased glory, the big spenders of people’s money are actually making fools of themselves with the current song and dance!
Unless dope tests prove otherwise, the people who should really celebrate the glory of Olympics are the people of Jamaica! With their sprinting prowess, they are the true blue medalists like our own Uncle Tan Howe Liang!
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