Just as i knew it! USA-CHINA-RUSSIA landed top3 spots! wahhhh ! While usa-china got close fighting stunts for medal posessions, toink....i can't see my own country. :(
Where are you Philippines my native land? Hehehe hayzzzzz i didn't see a filipino with even a single bronze at least awww....so sad.First, with all due respect to our "honest" athletes who may have tried their "honest" best somehow, I still have certain doubts.
Are we filipino's so incapacitated and entirely weak ? Isn't there one filipino with an olympiad talent and skill? Did we all even formally know who our representatives are or where they are from an how they were chosen to get to a worldwide-famed competition as this? Sad but it seems like we're a nation so invisible and blotted out.Couldn't there have been more capable talents somewhere in the four corners of this country who could have made it but weren't just given the chance? There must be talents who could have gone further but are obscured because of their status in society. They are those who got what it takes but not "who" it takes to get there.Would I be alone if i feel and think that once more here we go dealing with nepotism cancer?
Still, where are the others who could have been there? Are we stucked as less successfull for being "kayumanggi" or for being a third world country? HOw do we explain Kenya?
The must be ones who go innate talents but not the professional trainings to polish their craft. Divers aren't much a wonder here are they? Even the badjao's got swift scuba diving skills, youd throw coins down and they'll swim for it all the way down. Kids 4 or 5yrs old or even less swarm the seas left unattended they swim like fishes here and there. There are those with acrobatic stunts in circuses and much more. But even built up with such talents from birth, they are but diamonds in the rough. While the country is busy with dirty politics, and overcoated with graft and corruption, there is no time to think about giving special care for future atheletes who could have brought home golds. Remember how in ancient Greece boys from birth were trained for their special military purpose to build their nation? Countries who have excelled the olympics...do you have an idea how they bring up their talents from childhood? While they are busy developing the fullest athletic capacity for these children, our kids are mostly left to train on their own. You can name but a few ones who got sot of formal trainings, ones from well-to-do familes perhaps while others are struggling to develop their own without much mentoring.
I dream of seeing politicians do something so that there's more budget allocated to enhance athletic power the best that could be done rather than seeing senators and congressmen engage in political debating bouts, criticizing the president and each other,throwing each others' garbage while each professing loyalty and love for the nation.
Perhaps there could have been even more. We could have produced even more and even better athletes than we have now.We still can.
Where are you Philippines my native land? Hehehe hayzzzzz i didn't see a filipino with even a single bronze at least awww....so sad.First, with all due respect to our "honest" athletes who may have tried their "honest" best somehow, I still have certain doubts.
Are we filipino's so incapacitated and entirely weak ? Isn't there one filipino with an olympiad talent and skill? Did we all even formally know who our representatives are or where they are from an how they were chosen to get to a worldwide-famed competition as this? Sad but it seems like we're a nation so invisible and blotted out.Couldn't there have been more capable talents somewhere in the four corners of this country who could have made it but weren't just given the chance? There must be talents who could have gone further but are obscured because of their status in society. They are those who got what it takes but not "who" it takes to get there.Would I be alone if i feel and think that once more here we go dealing with nepotism cancer?
Still, where are the others who could have been there? Are we stucked as less successfull for being "kayumanggi" or for being a third world country? HOw do we explain Kenya?
The must be ones who go innate talents but not the professional trainings to polish their craft. Divers aren't much a wonder here are they? Even the badjao's got swift scuba diving skills, youd throw coins down and they'll swim for it all the way down. Kids 4 or 5yrs old or even less swarm the seas left unattended they swim like fishes here and there. There are those with acrobatic stunts in circuses and much more. But even built up with such talents from birth, they are but diamonds in the rough. While the country is busy with dirty politics, and overcoated with graft and corruption, there is no time to think about giving special care for future atheletes who could have brought home golds. Remember how in ancient Greece boys from birth were trained for their special military purpose to build their nation? Countries who have excelled the olympics...do you have an idea how they bring up their talents from childhood? While they are busy developing the fullest athletic capacity for these children, our kids are mostly left to train on their own. You can name but a few ones who got sot of formal trainings, ones from well-to-do familes perhaps while others are struggling to develop their own without much mentoring.
I dream of seeing politicians do something so that there's more budget allocated to enhance athletic power the best that could be done rather than seeing senators and congressmen engage in political debating bouts, criticizing the president and each other,throwing each others' garbage while each professing loyalty and love for the nation.
Perhaps there could have been even more. We could have produced even more and even better athletes than we have now.We still can.
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