First he beat the number one, then he beat the number 20. Singapore’s Ronald Susilo (I always thought he was Indonesian) has a shot at winning an Olympic medal in badminton.
First he beat the number one, then he beat the number 20. Singapore’s Ronald Susilo (I always thought he was Indonesian) has a shot at winning an Olympic medal in badminton.
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maybe he was indonesian, but now he’s singporean? singapore likes to import winners!
Comment by kristen — 17 August 2004 @ 11:03 pm
gold, shmold. a million dollars baby!
Comment by mark — 18 August 2004 @ 1:21 am
I was enlightening a Belgian expatriate on the habit of importing Chinese sportspeople into Singapore at lunch yesterday.
Comment by andrea — 18 August 2004 @ 8:34 am
Same in any country (including my home Australia). If you are any good and they want to bypass the citizenship rules they will find a link to your great great great great great aunt’s sister’s second cousin’s nephew and claim that you are therefore eligible!
Comment by TuTu — 18 August 2004 @ 7:49 pm
Ugh. This guy lost and deservedly so. He totally gave up in the second set. Wimp. Now Singapore’s medal hopes rest solely on two non-Singaporeans. I find the media and government’s lust for a single medal (any medal, mind you) to be a matter of such national pride. Is a medal supposed to signify that Singapore’s sports programs are any good?
Andrea, when are you going to blog about how utterly lame the Singapore Idol judges are. They let through some of the most untalented people ever. I think they should have saved time and just gone through their normal Mediacorp Artiste selection methods … with these judges conducting the tryouts, the results will be the same anyway.
Comment by Chris — 19 August 2004 @ 11:17 am
Er, Chris, how can I write about Singapore Idol judges, I’ve never seen the programme. I’m in China, remember.
Comment by andrea — 19 August 2004 @ 1:45 pm