Artificially importing foreign talents, and suiting them up in the nation’s colours do not instil or inspire support, as we have seen through the years. In fact, the importation of foreign-born athletes and the resultant unhappiness about this from the public, may have done much damage to sports as a whole, or rather, to our athletes as a whole. Now, it seems that when an athlete, whether local-born or foreign-born, wins a medal or a competition, there is a palpable muted reaction from Singaporeans. Joseph Schooling just won a silver in the 100m butterfly swimming event at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. It is our first such medal at the Games. How many of us are actually excited by it, or are cheering his achievement?
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 01:41:52 +0000
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