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

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Friday, October 17, 2008
BEIJING: Chinese Olympic table tennis champion Wang Hao has been ordered to undergo ritual self-humiliation after a confrontation with a parking attendant who reportedly caught him urinating outside a karaoke hall.
Wang, who won a team gold and individual silver at the Beijing Games, will have to confess his sins in front of the national team after allegedly scuffling with the attendant in the karaoke hall’s parking lot last Thursday.
“He needs to examine himself in front of the team, talk about his feelings and the lessons he’s learned and sound a warning for his other teammates,” Liu said.
Wang was taken to a police station after he reportedly kicked the attendant, but was not charged and has denied striking the man or being drunk. However, he has apologised for verbally abusing him and reportedly paid him 2,000 yuan to settle the matter.
Table tennis is often referred to as China’s national past time and the country’s top competitors are subject to enormous public scrutiny. Four Olympic hopefuls were dismissed for having romantic affairs which affected their training for the Athens Games.

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