Li Jiawei is leaving - and there’s nothing the STTA and SSC can do about it

Li, Left, Leaving Singapore TT team.

Red Sports, 15 Oct 2008, Singapore Sports Fan
A member of the public, Edmund Lin, wrote to a local newspaper (see full letter below) about Li Jiawei’s probable departure for Beijing to get married and pursue her studies.
I couldn’t help being amused by Edmund Lin’s last paragraph in which he wondered whether the Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA) and the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) will pull out all the stops to encourage Li to stay on and contribute to the local sports scene.
Let’s be realistic.
There is NOTHING that the STTA and the SSC can do to keep Li in Singapore simply because she does not have a sense of belonging to the country beyond table tennis.
In fact, I wonder whether Li has ever felt a sense of belonging to Singapore in the first place.

 

Source: http://singaporenewsalternative.blogspot.com/2008/10/li-jiawei-is-leaving-and-theres-nothing.html