I WISH to express my deepest and most heartfelt congratulations to Singapore for winning its second Olympic medal after a long, long 48-year wait. This ended 48 years of intense hope, anticipation, disappointment, anguish and financial resources spent.

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Rubbish! What is there to congratulate when you pay someone to sit for an exam on behalf of your child? After 48 long years and Sg still need FTs to clinch this silver medal is the biggest mockery in this planet.

Why can't Sg groom their own stars after so many years. Years ago, you have players like Chia Chong Boon, Tan Kai Kok, Tan Yong Hong, Grace and Patricia Kim and I wonder why STTA did not build on this .

Quek asks "Do the ends justify the means? Would any self-respecting nation, sportsman and woman derive any pride in this manner?"
$$$ talks. mercenaries. people will take banned substances and do anything for fame and glory of an Oympic medal - a passport to millions of endorsements. There is no self-respect. Spore's red passport given to whoever she thinks can get her an Olympic medal.
XiaoWei.Ms hits the nail when she observed 'after 48 long years and Sg still need FTs to clinch this silver medal is the biggest mockery in this planet'.

Any medal is a good medal. The fact is that Singaporean parents would simply refuse letting their kids do sports.

Its good that we encourage the talent to be part of our team. This will give our people (children) the courage, pride and determination to try... Many societies in history (like China, Japan) tried to closed themselves to external "help" and became backwards while the world moved on.

We should be like Turkey. They recruited talented foreign Turk footballers born to immigrant parents (or at least 1 Turkish parent) abroad.

There are 1.8 million Turks living in Germany, making up 26% of all non-Germans holding citizenship in the country. With the footballers among the descendents of Turkish immigrants, eligible to represent Turkey, many did at the recent European Championships & World Cup of 2002. Halil Altintop, Hamit Altintop, Umit Davala, Ilhan Mansiz, Yildiray Basturk, Malik Fathi, Mesut Ozil, Nuri Sahin & Serdar Tasci did just that.

London-born Colin Kazeem-Richards (whose mother is Turkish) represented Turkey at the last European Championship, & another English-born footballer, Mustafa Izzat, whose father was Turkish, also wore the national team jersey of the Turks.

With this foreign legion, Turkey have become a formidable team in international soccer.

Perhaps these are the sort of foreign talent S'pore should be scouting for. Children of S'porean parentage, who excel in sports, after emigrating to foreign lands.

Had the TT team been here since a child and train their way up to represent Sg, the silver is worth winning. But not when they are already well trained in

China and highly ranked. In this way it makes the win a big farce. During this Olympic any player who had played against Sg can safely tell the world that

they had played against China as not only our TT players are from China but also the coach.

#6 - most of the Singaporeans who immigrated are happy bad-mouthing Singapore. You think they will send their kids here to do sports? Especially if they are already doing well overseas.

follow the example of germany's man tt team !!!! all of them are true born germans and they make the chinese man's team earn their keeps !!!

I agree