Our Paralympic Athletes have done our country proud. Without much fuss over the issue of monetary awards and their nationality, these unsung heroines have won our country 1 gold, 1 silver, and 2 brone medals. And that trumped our able-bodied athletes’ pathetic one silver medal.
Here’s the record:
- Laurentia Tan: 2 bronze in the equestrian events; and
- Yip Pin Xiu: 1 silver and 1 gold 50m swimming freestyle and backstroke respectively.
Also, Yip hold the world record for both the swimming events – 57.04s for 50m freestyle and 57.92s for 50m backstroke respectively.
Let us congratulate these daughters of Singapore for doing us all proud… even prouder than our Summer Olympic team ever could. It certainly showed the world that we Singaporeans are made of sterner stuff and not everyone of us are a bunch of whiners!
They are the true heroes, and those who helped them are also true heroes. I hate those jumped on the bandwagon to enjoy their glories.
Do not need the money. The heart felt warm from all of us are good enough. I can only feel the coldness of the metal of that sole medal.
These are true s’pore born heroes/heroine,n of course not to forget our s’pore born coach, I salute them truly from bottom of my heart. Well done keep it up, we can do it again in 2012. Why need imported FTs?, I believe we can train our own athletes better.
Yes, the Paralympic Athletes do us proud!
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congrats to them!
I seriously feel that the publicity for the paralympics is lacking. C’mon, where’s the live telecast and all?
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