WHat a foreign talent
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Originally posted by dragg:
i bet if you are in her position you will stand up and let the unreasonable old lady have the seat, say thank you, buy her lunch and send her home too.
don't quote words from your own imagination. i wrote 'jio the old lady down and go police station file ready for sue. i will never be in her position. i don;t need to go foreign land, i can stay in singapore survive. so we are of two very differnt world. she is more pathatic than me, having to go foeign land, when her own cocktry so bigh she still cannotlive in it. -
Originally posted by JelloPoop:
When the FT is right or wrong it doesn't give her the right to raise her voice. When people raise their voice in an arguement it is usually to create intimidation. Look at the FT so aggressive, want to confront the old lady. So rude. Go home to china la
And if it was me, this wouldnt have happen because respecting the elderly is in my SINGAPOREAN textbook called 好公民.
she also don;t dare to hit her. as long as she throw the first punhc - game over. after all trash in sg knows our rights na dlaw here. the bystanders should just stand one side see she dare hit the lady or not. pity i wasn't there, like i worte if i were there things whould not go so easy for her.
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Originally posted by JelloPoop:
When the FT is right or wrong it doesn't give her the right to raise her voice. When people raise their voice in an arguement it is usually to create intimidation. Look at the FT so aggressive, want to confront the old lady. So rude. Go home to china la
And if it was me, this wouldnt have happen because respecting the elderly is in my SINGAPOREAN textbook called 好公民.
yep to creeate indimidattion. but i raise my voice usually when people say or ask silly things. like my iccpmay, one lao charbor and tarpor, primary 6 only. procedure keep changing and chnaging from marhc unitl now keep changing and changin - march until august every mondy meeting - kanninabu lao pua jibai who can endure this type of primary 6 shit? -
Still not fast enough
Tao admits she needs to do some soul searching after London
Singapore's Tao Li after the heats of the 100m backstroke yesterday, in which she clocked 1min 01.6sec to shave half a second off the previous time. She failed to advance. Tao has admitted that having three coaches in the last four years had not been ideal for her preparations. -- PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS
AT THE GAMES
BY TERRENCE VOON
SPORTS CORRESPONDENT
LONDON - There was no defiant finish, no big swim for the big meet, and no place in the final.There was at least a national record, but the evidence from Tao Li's 2012 Olympic campaign points to one cold fact: She is still fast - just not as fast as the rest.
Singapore's No. 1 female swimmer lowered her own national mark in the women's 100m backstroke yesterday, clocking 1min 01.6sec to shave half a second off the previous time.
She did not make it out of the heats, nor did she expect to.
Her real assignment here was to reach the final of the 100m butterfly, a mission which ended one day earlier, in the semi-finals.
Tao, the country's great hope for an Olympic swimming medal after her Beijing breakthrough four years ago, finished 10th out of the 16 semi-finalists.
She touched the wall in 58.18sec - faster than the 59 seconds she had been posting for the last two years. But not fast enough.
All eight finalists for last night's final at the Aquatics Centre qualified with sub 58-second timings. American Dana Vollmer and Australia's Alicia Coutts - the favourites - went under 57.
From fifth at the Beijing Games to 10th in London, Tao knew she had some explaining to do.
"The result was not too bad," said the swimmer. "But there was really nothing I could do - the others were simply too fast.
"After the Olympics, I need to evaluate myself, and hopefully do better at the Asian Games."
Tao has not been herself since her astonishing swim in Beijing, where she clocked an Asian record of 57.54sec en route to the final.
That was done in a now-banned supersuit, but even without it, she admitted that she should be nailing down similar times.
So why isn't she?
Since Beijing, she has had three coaching changes, with Ian Turner coming in for fellow Briton Barry Prime less than 12 months ago. Prime's departure was said to be a mutual decision, but she now says it could have backfired.
"If I hadn't changed coaches, I believe my standards would have been one step higher," she admitted. "The problem is not with Ian - we communicate well and he gives me the freedom to express myself.
"Perhaps my time with him is too short, and it wasn't possible to make a smooth transition between his training and the previous training."
Singapore's chef de mission Jessie Phua, who watched Tao's swim from the stands, insisted the swimmer had excelled in spite of a "very spluttering four years of preparation".
"I'd like to challenge any athlete who's had three change of coaches in the last four years to come up with this kind of performance," she told The Straits Times.
"(She needs) competition opportunities so that she can travel on a regular basis, where she can be challenged regularly, where her developmental programme is not disrupted.
"If we don't give her any more of these hiccups, she'll bring home a medal in 2016."
By the time of the Rio Olympics, Tao will be 26. She knows she will have to work harder just to get there.
Said Turner: "She's getting a little bit old, but there were girls in (the 100m fly semi-finals) that were significantly older than her as well.
"It's very disappointing (that she didn't make the final), but let me say this to you, when she went in, she was ranked 24th (in the world) and she finished 10th.
"Perhaps we're hoping for too much, but hope springs eternal."
Tao has no more time to waste
By TERRENCE VOON
COMMENTARY
MINUTES before Tao Li's biggest swim in four years, there was a familiar face next to her.Roger Fitzgerald, a world-class physiotherapist from Australia, had been flown in to make sure every muscle in the swimmer's body was primed to explode for the semi-finals of the women's 100m butterfly.
The 52-year-old muscle energy expert has worked with the Australian swim team for over a decade, rubbing down Olympic gold medallists like Grant Hackett and Keiren Perkins at the Games.
Fitzgerald did not come cheap, and that was reportedly why the Singapore Swimming Association (SSA) dropped his services in 2007.
He is here in London now, "to make the water whistle past her ears", he told me.
It did not quite work out that way for Tao in the end, but sparing no effort - and expense - is the least Singapore can do for its best and brightest female swimmer.
But let's not stop with Fitzgerald. If Tao is to redeem herself in Rio four years later, she will need a world-class eco-sytem around her.
She will need to be supported. She will need to be pushed. And if that means basing herself abroad for a training stint, so be it.
Unfortunately, it is no secret that she prefers to stay put in Singapore, where she trains at the Singapore Swimming Club with Ian Turner and is surrounded by friends and family.
"I have a very good coach and good resources here," she said in a pre-Olympics interview. "Singaporeans like to say that going overseas is good, but I feel it's already very good here."
Sure, going abroad will require some getting used to. But the pay-off will be worth it: fewer distractions, a more focused state of mind, and the bonus of training alongside other world-class swimmers.
Athletes can sometimes bend the elements, but it is their environment which shapes them.
The United States - as Singapore's Joseph Schooling has shown - could be a wise choice. It has a highly competitive college swimming scene, cutting-edge sports science support and a rich tradition of producing world champions.
Australia, also a top swimming nation, is another.
Even Singapore's chef de mission, Jessie Phua, wondered aloud yesterday if top athletes like Tao face "a glass ceiling" back home.
The swimmer will hate the idea of uprooting herself, but elite sport is rarely a convenient pursuit.
The bald truth is that the 2016 Olympics are her last chance to realise her potential - and she cannot afford to cool her heels in Singapore until then.
"The standards in Rio are going to be even higher," warned head coach Ang Peng Siong.
In other words, no more mucking around.
And certainly no more playing musical chairs with coaches.
Turner, the former head of Britain's national programme, must be given much more than the 12 months he had, to put Tao back on the straight and narrow for one more Olympic final. Or perhaps, even a medal.
Tao will be the first to tell us that it is not over yet. She has the talent, the explosive kicking, and the mindset of a champion who adores the big occasion.
Powered by extra funds from the government's Olympic Pathway Programme, she is still our best bet in women's swimming.
But four years have already been squandered. She cannot afford to waste another four.
Part B, Sport, The Straits Times, Monday, July 30 2012, Pg B17
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Singapore is becoming a foreign island =\
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took a bus , seems ah tiong dun understand wat is common courtesy
talk loudly on phone
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Originally posted by lce:
took a bus , seems ah tiong dun understand wat is common courtesy
talk loudly on phone
IT's FT day.
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Majulah chinaindiabanglapore~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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cmon, they are cheap.
cheap itself - is a talent aredi
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Lolz
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don;t laff, you must agree - the L and L regime!
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foreign TALENT? i didnt know being rude and talking loud in a bus can be considered a TALENT .
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L&L???
With pun intended..............lolz
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Originally posted by brandonmania:
foreign TALENT?
i didnt know being rude and talking loud in a bus can be considered a TALENT .loud talent?
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talented heartware
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Originally posted by brandonmania:
foreign TALENT?
i didnt know being rude and talking loud in a bus can be considered a TALENT .
c'mon - theya re cheap, dirt cheap that it brings our salary scale even lower. that in itself is a talent. -
Originally posted by lce:
talented heartware
lots of bullcrap -
lower wages, rising cost of living, still expect us to breed..........................
really, do most of us need such high standard of living?
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the root cause is wages - rock bottom now becock of those 'talents'. and also the social problem they bring when their numebrs increase - the whole palce like they own it. look here - the problem's created by you know who, now expect us to do what?
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its oridi a talent to live in singapore with low wages . expensive home n living
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Lolz to the max