Post by Isaac Ho, the Admin on Aug 3, 2014 14:37:33 GMT -5
YOUNG CHINESE PEOPLE ARE BORN AS THE WORLD'S LEADING BADMINTON PLAYERS
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by Isaac Ho, the Admin and Founder of this Forum
As a Chinese, I am proud to discuss that determined and talented young Chinese people are born world players of badminton.
As early as in the 1950s, I had been an ardent player and fan of badminton.
I remembered in those teenage years growing up in the post-Jap occupied British Malaya (now independent Malaysia), I followed
with awe the badminton prowess of the late Wong Peng Soon of the then British colony of Singapore when he played so well in
the Thomas Cup in faraway Great Britain.
Indeed, he and his fellow badminton gang brought fame and put the then British Malaya on the world map when they succeeded
in the winning the world acclaimed Thomas Cup by beating their opponents the Americans.
There was a huge parade in Kuala Lumpur at that time and from the shophouse where I lived, I saw vividly the string of open
cars with the front one bearing the world's best badminton players with the glittering Thomas Cup that they had won.
I continue to play the game of badminton at school, i.e. The Methodist Boys' School upon Petaling Hill in Kuala Lumpur.
Our classmates continued to discuss about the prowess of our Chinese brothers/sisters in the game of badminton which
persistently win the Thomas Cup whenever they were sent to England to compete.
Then the sly Indonesians copied the style of the great Malaysian players by repeatedly watching our Thomas Cup winners
playing the games on black-and-white 16 mm films which their coach bought from Film Negara, Malaysia.
Then these Indonesians, unexpectedly, beat the Malaysian players in the Thomas Cup competitions hereafter.
The best Indonesian players were Rudy Hartono and Lim Swee Keng, both being Chinese from the Indonesian province of Java.
Then the best double Indonesian players were Tang Sin Fu and Hou Kar Chong and due to the racial policy of Indonesian of
discrimination against the Chinese in the 1950s (continue on to this day), they jumped ship and returned to The People's
Republic of China and begun training the young Chinese badminton players, which in subsequent years became the world's
best badminton players - World No: 1 player now in Lin Dan of China.
Surprising the tide turned against the Indonesian players when in 1964, the Malaysian players led by Yew Cheng Hoe and
Tay Kiew San led in the 4-3 win in Thomas Cup Competition held in Jakarta (Indonesia was then in the height of military
struggle with independent Malaysia called the Confrontasi by the corrupted/dictatorial regime of Soekarno and his cohort
of Indonesia military).
On the night of that historic Thomas Cup competition held in Jakarta, the jeering crowds of wild Indonesian spectators stop the
game when Malaysia was leading at 4-3 win over the Indonesian players.
Because of the loud noise and disturbance created by the unruly Indonesians, the Thomas Game could not be completed and
the Secretary of International Badminton Federation adjourned the game and shifted the game to New Zealand which the
Indonesian Badminton Federation flatly refused...and hence the prestigious Thomas Cup was handed over to the winning
Malaysian players in the end...!
As can be seen, the cream of the world's best badminton players have always been Chinese whether they are born or raised
in Singapore (Wong Peng Soon) or Indonesia (Rudy Hartono) or Malaysia (Yew Cheng Ho) or even China (Lin Dan).
Because badminton is in the blood of all young and innovative Chinese people around the world and even to this day.
The 20th Commonwealth Games now being held in Glasgow, England, saw the women's double gold medal won by the
two young Chinese women (Malaysians) - Vivian Hoo and Woon Khe Wei which beat the Indian pair...!
As a Chinese and like most Chinese, we would wish all Chinese badminton players the best and may they continue to win
glory and fame for the sake of the innovative and creative Chinese people everywhere - immaterial of whether they reside
in mainland China or overseas.
To our Chinese brothers and sisters and our beloved ancestral homeland of China, may Our Almighty God continue to bless
them all and their sacred land of China - strong, prosperous, indomitable, pulsating with strength and military energy to repulse
all their enemies at the gate - the bastardly Japs of the Pig & Running Dog Shinzo Abe and his militant right-wing cohorts, the
military and bad politicians (including Obama the Terrible) of United States, the Charlie Vietcongs of ungrateful Vietnam and
others. We as Chinese must beat them at their nefarious and God-condemning ways to try to undermine China and her
sacred sovereignty (i.e. Diaoyu Islands and the Southeast Asian islands which are inherent historic territories of China).
Long live our ancestral homeland of China and her innovative and diligent people....Cheers!!!