Table-tennis.
So I was watching our table-tennis players fighting the Koreans when I realized that the Koreans have nicer legs. OK perhaps I missed some of the action, but the last 2 players didn't possess legs which looked as nice as their opponents.
Which says a lot because I don't like Koreans. Never mind.
So I was trying to find something the Singapore team had in common, and I'm sure everyone knows that they're from China. Not that I have anything against China, but that they aren't exactly 'homegrown'. So what's the big fuss about them getting into the finals, with a consperm+guarantee+chop that they would at least get a silver.
A lot of people are comparing them with our homegrown Tan Howe Liang. I have more respect for him, although I really don't like the iFea of weightlifting as a sport. He got a silver without government support. He financed his own effort to compete. There's no 1million dollar bounty for getting any medals.
He did it just because..I don't know. But he did it. Not much immediate honour, nothing, life went on as usual for him. But now, athletes get so much attention. Is it for the sport or for the money?
I mean, some people would hunt Mas Selamat Kastari for the 1million bounty. Some would hunt him for solely for international security reasons and stuff like that, not for the money but for the betterment of humanity.
Same goes for sports. Some people do it out of passion, some just for the money. Makes me wonder whether they'd play even if there's no money involved.
The world is rather screwed these days.
Oh yea, and I haven't sexplained my distaste for weightlifting as a sport. That's the only event I have a problem with. Maybe discus also, but for now, weightlifting is the worst. Simply because it injures knees.
If you don't suffer from rheumatism or arthritis or any form of knee injury, don't even try to rebut this point. My knee hurts a lot last time and it was horrible. A human's knee isn't supposed to be able to tahan that additional 300+ kilograms of metal. There's some guy out there, I forgot his country, who is the tallest man on Earth currently. And his knee can't even tahan his body weight and it hurts. So you think about all the weightlifters and the damage they're inflicting upon themselves.
A very ugly sport, that's what I feel. You get your knees damaged.
I went to wiki Mr. Tan's page and he supposedly felt pain in his knees. But he went on to raise 380kg of metal. Or something, I forgot the exact mass. I respect him for that, because that was the first Olympic medal for Singapore. It must be something to do with national pride. But is the price a bit too high? Then again, that's for him to decide.
So tomorrow, we'd see China vs. Singapore for the womens' table-tennis finals. Yet Singapore is represented by foreign talent. Not that it's a bad thing, but that...perhaps I'd be even more proud for Singapore if we got homegrown and born players.
I don't even make sense anymore. The match was sexciting anyway, good job.
I'm going to write about 'wilt' in my next post. Please remind me.
-- 8/16/2008 07:17:00 PM
