The Summer Olympics has arrived in London and it will be held for around 2 weeks from 27 July until 12 August 2012. The Games has entered its 3rd day, and few Malaysians have completed their participation with not so encouraging results.
Some of them has completed their games and got eliminated early. However, it was encouraging when we heard the guys competed professionally and bravely to overcome their stronger opponents. Frankly, other than badminton and cycling, we are no where near the top athletes and far away from their standards. We know our limitations and I believe the fans don't blame them.
But, it was not a good thing to know that our cycling athletes for the 250km road race who did not finished the race. One of them dropped out at round 7 and the other at round 8 of a 9 rounds circuit. I don't understand why they chose to stopped in their quest to compete when their team manager has given them the task to at least complete the race.
We can't accept the reason that they are young and can be forgived. We are paying for their trip there and they are supposed to compete and come back with what ever result that they are capable of getting. But now we are seeing 2 DNF in their score card and what are they going to say when they come back to face the Malaysian public? Is this the typical tak apa attitude that we commonly see in the Malaysian athlete's?
Heard of Eric "The Eel" from the Sydney 2000 Olympics where he completed his swimming race double the time of the winner? Why can't these 2 guys persevered and did the same? This is not BOLEH, this is BOLIAU!
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