Comments on: Team Singapore is into Beijing Olympic 2008 Table Tennis Final!!

By: Z.Y.X

Z.Y.X — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:12:17 +0000

U will see Singapore winning gold medal in London Olympic over China!!!

By: eunice

eunice — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:19:25 +0000

@adelefi, Z.Y.X: Right! ^_- Keep going Team Singapore.

By: Z.Y.X

Z.Y.X — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:36:45 +0000

Even China won, Singapore did a good job! Well done, SINGAPORE!!!

By: adelefi

adelefi — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:32:25 +0000

singapore does not play for money they play to make singapore proud and who cares if thre china born it makes no diffrence

By: eunice

eunice — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:58:52 +0000

@Chuck: Well-said!!

@Yahya: Perhaps you didn’t know that Lee Chong Wei’s previous coach was from China? So any credit for this China coach who trained a world class player? =)

In addition, many coaches are not locally born to help those countries to win medals too!

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:55:49 +0000

Yahya, is there something wrong with corporate headhunting? It’s a perfectly legitimate business strategy. You can try to recruit all the people you want, but if they don’t like your country, they won’t come. I don’t see many people migrating to North Korea or Cuba, for example.

Christopher Columbus was an Italian from Genoa, Italy, but the world thinks of him as Spanish, because the Spaniards financed his voyages to the New World. George Friederich Handel was a German composer. He couldn’t find a suitable position in the German principalities, however, so he emigrated to England, and became an English composer.

The world doesn’t think any less of Columbus or Handel because of their going elsewhere to ply their trades, nor does the world think any less of Spain or England for taking them in. On the contrary, they were wise to do so.

By: eunice

eunice — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:27:16 +0000

@Mark H: In fact, I just knew recently that one of the players is a Chinese in the South Korea Table Tennis Women’s Team, and they got the bronze. For the Austria Men’s Team, one of them also migrated from China, same as the Japan Women’s Team. Everyone is everywhere now, it’s just like what happened in the ancient days when people already crossed borders to choose where to live. So basically this is nothing new. It’s just that someone did the migration “job” first so we ended up rooted in where we are now. Lastly, all the best to Team Australia!! =)

@KC: You’ve finally grown up and mature enough to understand my statements nowadays! hehehehe

I agreed with “how you play”. I am more interested to discuss on how these Olympians play the game, then arrogantly picking on them about where they are originated from. What’s the big deal if they are not born in Singapore? We should be proud of talents who choose to do Singapore proud.