Lure of the Olympic Gold
Its pretty amazing how Olympics affects the lives of people... People all over the world are tuning in and staying glued to their television sets watching the sports telecasts nonstop, day and night.
Everywhere you hear people talking about Olympics, how Guo Jing Jing and Wu Minxia are going to win the diving golds, Is Micheal Phelps going to break Mark Spitz's record of 7 Golds in one Olympic? Who is going to beat the Chinese at the Olympics at Badminton? How the Australians underperformed at the pools... The insane run of Bolt in the 100m men's finals... the list goes endless... Probably the one that raises one of the most topics would be Singapore's final meeting with China in Tonight's table tennis Women's team Gold. Theoretically speaking, most of the racket sports, you can say that its all dorminated by the Chinese, be it they are from China or they migrated and represent other countries now. Such is the lure of the Olympics that they are willing to migrate for that chance to represent their fostered countries simply because China has simply too much talents in these fields that they do not get their chance...
Well, I just got home from visiting my grandmother, my uncles and aunties are all talking about Olympics, all of them would definitely be watching the finals tonight, none will be watching the National Day Rally that is telecast live. Simply because its Singapore's chance of getting an Olympic medal after 48 years, quite simply a rare chance for this shot at the Olympic Gold that even the National Day Rally telecast has been postponed just because of it...
Such is the lure of the Olympic games that everyone is talking about it, I am sure that Singapore will come to a standstill as everyone will be glued to their television set awaiting the outcome of the finals against the almighty Chinese team..
It is amazing how that little glimmer of hope can create such an sensation, even though it is unlikely that Singapore will beat China at the finals, but its just simply indescribable that how that tiny glimmer of hope can create such a stir...
For me? I will be shuttling between the table tennis game and the diving 3m finals, hoping that Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia will strike Gold. Simply because Guo Jingjing is my favourite athlete of this games, followed by Phelps and Kitajima of Japan...
At the very least, i am glad that i am at home watching the games, at least for today....
Everywhere you hear people talking about Olympics, how Guo Jing Jing and Wu Minxia are going to win the diving golds, Is Micheal Phelps going to break Mark Spitz's record of 7 Golds in one Olympic? Who is going to beat the Chinese at the Olympics at Badminton? How the Australians underperformed at the pools... The insane run of Bolt in the 100m men's finals... the list goes endless... Probably the one that raises one of the most topics would be Singapore's final meeting with China in Tonight's table tennis Women's team Gold. Theoretically speaking, most of the racket sports, you can say that its all dorminated by the Chinese, be it they are from China or they migrated and represent other countries now. Such is the lure of the Olympics that they are willing to migrate for that chance to represent their fostered countries simply because China has simply too much talents in these fields that they do not get their chance...
Well, I just got home from visiting my grandmother, my uncles and aunties are all talking about Olympics, all of them would definitely be watching the finals tonight, none will be watching the National Day Rally that is telecast live. Simply because its Singapore's chance of getting an Olympic medal after 48 years, quite simply a rare chance for this shot at the Olympic Gold that even the National Day Rally telecast has been postponed just because of it...
Such is the lure of the Olympic games that everyone is talking about it, I am sure that Singapore will come to a standstill as everyone will be glued to their television set awaiting the outcome of the finals against the almighty Chinese team..
It is amazing how that little glimmer of hope can create such an sensation, even though it is unlikely that Singapore will beat China at the finals, but its just simply indescribable that how that tiny glimmer of hope can create such a stir...
For me? I will be shuttling between the table tennis game and the diving 3m finals, hoping that Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia will strike Gold. Simply because Guo Jingjing is my favourite athlete of this games, followed by Phelps and Kitajima of Japan...
At the very least, i am glad that i am at home watching the games, at least for today....
posted by EniGmAtiC NoStaLgiA at 8/17/2008 04:38:00 PM
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