Sunday, August 22, 2004

winners, not losers.

One by one, singaporean sportsmen and sportswomen went down in defeat. Thus, at that time, the pressure was on Ronald Susilo after he convincingly beat Lin Dan. However, it was not to be as he lost in the quarter final to some unknown thai player. Everyone was diasppointed, but at the same time proud of his achievements.
Hence, our attention turned to the table tennis team, which was favourite to win a medal for Singapore. This afternoon, we witnessed the battle of Li Jia Wei against another Korean player(she lost to the other one in the semis) in the 3rd place playoff. She looked impatient and wasn't in good shape, and so, missed a few shots and lost quite a number of marks. As the korean player was as usual, barking and barking, plus her mentality was defending, she forced Li to make mistakes and in the end, Li went home empty handed.
Well, I could see after the match that Li was not happy at all. We may be disappointed, but i can assure her that every singaporean is proud of her in how she forced her way into the semi finals. She may be 4th in this olympic, but in another 4 years time, she would be a force to reckon with. The deciding factor was the amount of pressure she handled. Without a olympic medal in 44 years, the hunger for olympic glory by the Singaporeans caused her to lose the bronze medal, and maybe the silver medal. If ronald susilo was still in his own competition and managed to win a medal, maybe there would be a different outcome.
Anyway, there is no doubt they will receive a standing ovation when they returned to Singapore. They have exceeded expectation and nobody could blame them for the lost. Life still goes on and hopefully, we will get a olympic medal in 48 years time.


P.S. that bitch in the final didn't have sportsmanship after losing the gold medal to zhang as she refuse to shake her hand. Shame on you and you don't deserve to wear that silver medal.

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