| Friday, 15 August 2008 |
| the end to 48 years of hoping |
Watching this scene on the television made me tear. =)
And, after three and a half nail-biting hours, the nation ends its 48 year long Olympic medal drought. Incredibly, this is going to be our first medal since independence. What a long wait it's been.
The 3 women must have had tons of pressure on their shoulders, and throughout the match, it seemed as if the pressure was going to break them. There were so many instances when it looked as if they were going to, once again, flounder under the immense pressure, but in the end, it took the amazing composure and pluckiness of 21 year old Feng Tian Wei to finally seal the victory for Singapore.
I wonder if the spectators at the Olympic table tennis stadium knew how much this medal means to the nation. I'm sure that most of the spectators are from countries who have had plenty of other medals won before... And for the Koreans, it just means that they have one less Gold or Silver to add to their multi-medal collection. But to the country of Singapore, it means EVERYTHING. The kind of euphoria felt after winning at least a Silver seems to be so much more than the euphoria some feel after winning a Gold. I mean, a Singaporean athlete has to win just a single gold to get a million dollars, whereas Micheal Phelps has to win 8 gold medals to get his own million... The numbers are seriously off. Its kind of funny really, and sort of shows how desperate we are to have something to show the world that we are really serious in becoming a sporting nation. Nonetheless, they finally did it. We can stop emphasizing the fact that we had only won an Olympic medal once before.
Let's hope that this is the start of many more future Olympic medals to come. =)Labels: sports |
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