Pathetic attempt

As usual I went to watch the Olympic highlights at 11pm on Channel 5 with Mark Richmond and Jade Seah. First thing they talked about was none other that the Table Tennis finals tomorrow at 7.30pm which will be showing live on Ch5. Nothing special about that.

Then they went on to comment that there was controversy on local forums about the table tennis players not being local, despite having Singapore citizenship. Ok fine I get that, it has much controversy but yet without these people, we might not even see a medal after 48 years of medal-less drought. But then Mark Richmond brought up examples that Singapore isn't the only one which uses foreign talents to represent them.

He mentioned a Portugal runner who was born in Nigeria, a French badminton player who was Chinese, a Croatian table tennis player who was also chinese. And this was.... deemed to be a trend? It seemed like a pathetic attempt to try telling Singaporeans not to be so shallow and look at the win as an honour for the country.

And at the end, Jade Seah made a comment saying that she considers the table tennis team to be true Singaporeas... before she looked away from the camera.

Now EDMVV all posting comments about what both Mark and Jade had said on the show. Sure kenna flame like mad.