I am a big fan of the Olympics...even though I'm becoming less and less enamoured of them as the years go by and more athletes are turning professional. I particularly admire paralympians who, more so than regular super fit Olympian have to overcome Herculean odds to achieve sporting victory. So, then...why aren't we getting ANY coverage of the Paralympics on TV? There's nothing at all safe a 1-2 minute segment on the news. What's even worse, is that when Singaporean, native-born Paralympian Laurentia Tan won a bronze in an Equestrian event yesterday, it only warranted a tiny section in the front page and a full page in the sports section. When our foreign bought table tennis players won a silver, it made HEADLINES. So why the discrepancy? After all, isn't this what we were waiting for? A true blue Singaporean winning an Olympic medal?
Here's the bigger question....will our Paralympians be greeted with the same pomp and circumstance as the table tennis players when they return to Singapore? Will the medal winners be granted a National Medal? Will they be feted at NTUC Fairprice events? Will the PM be as effusive in his enthusiastic praise? Let's wait and see....
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