Comments on: China Downplays Tragedy at Beijing Olympics http://thewarriorlawyer.com/2008/08/16/china-downplays-tragedy-at-beijing-olympics/ Lawyer in the Philippines Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:50:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bencard http://thewarriorlawyer.com/2008/08/16/china-downplays-tragedy-at-beijing-olympics/comment-page-1/#comment-30353 Bencard Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:29:54 +0000 http://thewarriorlawyer.com/?p=396#comment-30353 butch, those are real tragedies of life, but for us filipinos, there is one tragedy which, while not involving any loss of life, is no less sad. i say this with all due respect to our fifteen hopefuls who gave it their best shot. but for a nation of close to 90 million people failing to win, so far, a single medal while much smaller countries with very tiny population do, e.g., jamaica, trinidad-tobago, belgium, etc., is most unfortunate. the fact that most of the victorious countries, e.g., china, south korea, japan, were able to turn around their performance in events which they were heretofore unsuccessful, within four years is something we should look into for inspiration. but first we should concentrate on events that we could have a good chance of winning and get politics and politicians out of our sports. (maybe we should ban basketball in the philippines). butch, those are real tragedies of life, but for us filipinos, there is one tragedy which, while not involving any loss of life, is no less sad. i say this with all due respect to our fifteen hopefuls who gave it their best shot. but for a nation of close to 90 million people failing to win, so far, a single medal while much smaller countries with very tiny population do, e.g., jamaica, trinidad-tobago, belgium, etc., is most unfortunate.

the fact that most of the victorious countries, e.g., china, south korea, japan, were able to turn around their performance in events which they were heretofore unsuccessful, within four years is something we should look into for inspiration. but first we should concentrate on events that we could have a good chance of winning and get politics and politicians out of our sports.

(maybe we should ban basketball in the philippines).

]]> By: BrianB http://thewarriorlawyer.com/2008/08/16/china-downplays-tragedy-at-beijing-olympics/comment-page-1/#comment-30319 BrianB Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:30:18 +0000 http://thewarriorlawyer.com/?p=396#comment-30319 You can't make a great wall without a great offering of blood and gore. You can’t make a great wall without a great offering of blood and gore.

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