"I took some ice water this morning, maybe it was because of that."
That was one of out athlete poor excuse for failing to at least improve her personal performance in Olympics. Being a professional athlete such is indeed a very irresponsible and lame excuse. The athlete should know what should or should not be taken during a major competition and to add to the insult water is accused of the athlete's downfall while in the same newspaper report, it succinctly stated that rain failed to hamper and prevent Russia's Kaniskina of winning the event!
Last night, an announcer shared his astonishment over the failure of the United State's men and women 4 x 100 metre quartets of reaching the finals. What a shameless and ignorant observation since Malaysia herself fails miserably there in Beijing. At least the United States have 28 (at least) gold medals to their names compared to a single silver for the Malaysian squad! Everyone ( except for a few like me) is claiming that such is an amazing achievement and thus the silver medalist is duly conferred with a Datukship. Well, at least that State confers one who deserves it for his contribution towards the betterment of sports in Malaysia unlike others who prefer to award those singers who are not really contributing anything beneficial or meaningful.
Anyway, Ethiopia despite her backwardness and according to Wikipedia ranks 78th in the world in terms of Gross Domestic Products and 125th based on her per capita income but proudly have 2 gold medals to her names. Now compare those with Malaysia's 29th position (GDP) and 57th position in terms of per capita incomes and we are overjoyed with a single silver medal! What an achievement, right? NOT!
Some say size does not count but even the skinniest athletes from the impoverished African continent manage to impress us with their strength and determination to win gold but Malaysian athletes with all the luxury and pampers succumb to a glass of iced water!
Some also say, if we can't defeat them, import them and such has become the trend when even such powerhouses in sports like the United States and Britain and even the tiny Singapore have done so with impressive results. Again, don't be heart broken we too have imported player but the athlete I am very sorry to say, a total failure and a disgrace to the whole nation. We import athlete just for the sake of import since we used to import old useless horse not even good for their meat!
Our sports bodies are busy going at each other to the detriment of the athletes whom they are supposed to look after and cultivate into great sportsmen and women. Instead of working together to improve the sorry state of Malaysian sports they are too busy to achieve personal glory and to show who is better or who has the authority.
Enough is enough , we need to revamp our sports structure and to do away with favouritism, nepotism, good/bad luck, bias refereeing, tidak apa syndrome, fast and easy to forgive and forget and many more filthy behaviours that will only lead to the rooting of sports. We need to be firm and act without fear and favour since the athletes are being sponsored by tax payers money and they are professionals who are supposed to be professional in every acts at anytime and not by giving nonsense and crazy excuses like iced water or the like.
Sports aren't just games, they are tasks which need fulfilment"
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