A Nation Failure

Singapore has always been top in many areas. In the academic area, in IT area, in research, in biomedical science but last in SPORTS!!! Our singaporean athletes failed to deliver their mission. Who to blame? the athletes or the society or the govt? It was indeed a sad moment for Singapore this afternoon when Susilo's gf Jiawei lost out Singapore's 44 year medal hope. I was glad i din see the match, if not i would have vomited blood.

Seriously, i knew Jiawei would not win. When she lost out the match to that North Korean girl, i knew tat was the end. Pple simply loves miracle and think she will win. I made sarcastics remarks that irritated my colleagues. I said she is following her senior Jing jun hong footstep. EXACTLY the SAME! 4 years ago in Sydney, Jing jun hong lost. Now, her junior has done us proud by following her again. pple might be throwing eggs at me now. :P but this is how i feel.

Do you think she can do it again in 2008 olympics? I DUN THINK so. For a simply reason, who will be the host for the next olympics? PRC, People's Republic of China BEIJING!!! They have excellent home ground advantage and tons of players tat they can choose. I think jiawei will have to wait for another 8 years when she is 31 (at the 2012 Olympics) b4 winning another possible medal. Unless the sports school is ready to produce another one(which i doubt it will) or Singapore invites another Chinese or Korean to pledge their allegience to us, i think the whole Olympic dream will end! Look at our Singaporean born athletes, Jocelin Yeo, Gary Tan ,Mark Chay, Stanley Tan. They had put us to shame. I know it is harsh to say that. But their performance are even worse that the foreign talents. They claimed to have done their best, so that is their best which means this is the furtherest that we can go. So, is Olympics really for us?

It is good to have dream, i agree, even our leaders encouraged. But we need to strike a balance too. Reality do not permit. If we are lousy, we admit but we should not have the say die attitute. We can strive but on a more reasonable step. Strive in regional games like ASIAN games or SEA games. It will be a better ground for them to work on. Dun set too high targets in the olympics such as winning a medal after some 40 years? Tremendous pressure are on the players and it is clearly demonstrated by jiawei's carelessness when she lost out to that North Korean girl. I was damn pissed at that competition. But too bad, mistake committed, life still moves on.

Better go sleep. Still have lots of things to do tomolo. Still not the end of the world yet! ha....