Tag: olympics
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My Father And The Melbourne Olympics
I’ve told this story many times before, but as the Olympic Games get under way in Rio, I remember again my father’s stint sixty years ago at the Melbourne Olympics: In another age altogether, my father scored a temp job at the Melbourne Olympics as a general clerk/intern assisting the accounts department. The Games then…
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Disappointed
That the national ping pong scandal was resolved, and there was NO sex involved! How to increase birth rate like that?
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Congratulations, Tao Li
On being the first Singaporean ever to make an Olympic swimming final, and finishing fifth. No medal, never mind.
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How many medals?
Our last medal haul looked like this, only silver [poll id=”5″]
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No torch, no medals, no records, no nothing…
Image from mooncostumes.com The torch relay bypassed Singapore probably because protests are only to be held indoors, with a licence, in designated areas. I dunno. Then there’s news that the Youth Olympics might be a Games without medals or records. That is the sucks! Might as well not have athletes. I mean, they even give…