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- Singapore’s Olympics swim team came under intense scrutiny when veteran Quah Ting Wen was unexpectedly replaced in the women’s 4x100m medley relay team by another swimmer, Gan Ching Hwee. Quah has since gone public with her side of the story, and ignited a debate about the fairness of the selection process. Some have labelled her as “entitled” for her actions, but is there more to this story than meets the eye? Elsewhere, Barcelona residents are resorting to squirting water at tourists to protest overtourism in the city. Is this a sign of things to come for all popular tourist destinations, including Singapore?
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00:00 On this episode...
00:24 Words of Wisdom
01:33 Intro
05:06 Quah Ting Wen Excluded From Olympics
43:49 Barcelona Tourists Squirted With Water Guns
57:05 One Shiok Comment
59:43 One Shiok Thing
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Quah Ting Wen Excluded From Olympics
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- S'pore Aquatics unsuccessful in appeal to World Aquatics to have Quah Ting Wen in Olympics team | mothership.sg/2024/07/singapo...
- Singapore swimmer Quah Ting Wen fails in appeal for Paris Olympics | www.straitstimes.com/sport/si...
- Paris Olympics: Singapore swimmer Quah’s Games hopes dashed after historic relay qualification | www.scmp.com/sport/other-spor...
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Barcelona Tourists Squirted With Water Guns
- Why Protesters Are Squirting Water at Tourists in Barcelona | time.com/6995756/barcelona-pr...
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Thanks lads for the upload. I enjoyed listening to this episode as it was a balance of both local and international news. I felt that the Barcelona incident could have been given more coverage in your episode.
Thank you for explaining the details objectively regarding the Quah Ting Wen and Gan Ching Hwee saga. It is done factually and objectively. I felt that all people should not simply form their opinions based purely on the media headlines without understanding the facts.
However, it is unfair to say that Singapore Aquatics is not prioritizing the relay event (28:35).
1. By logic, any association would want to send as many athletes to the Olympics as possible.
2. A relay event would allow 4 athletes to participate in the Olympics.
3. The reason why Singapore Aquatics decided to include Gan for the team event is due to the Paris 2024 qualification criteria - 2 x qualified individuals + 2 x relay-only
4. Regardless of which permutations, Letitia and Gan would have to be in the relay team due to the qualification criteria for relay events.
A noteworthy point is that if either Quah Ting Wen, Quah Jing Wen or Levenia Sim got the "A" cut or "B" cut (and subsequently got invited), the whole team will be qualified for the relay event. Gan would also qualify for her individual events without needing to replace anybody.
Fair point
What does Quah want by creating a scene ? She wants to go at the expense of Gan !
Common lah, she has been to the Olympics 3 times. As a senior, she should graciously accept the decision.
It take an alpha person to compete. So competing is in her blood.
actually if you think about it, the choice is between the two quah sisters, both swim the 100fly. it makes no sense for Gan not to go since she's swimming 2 individual events!
The less than 48 hours (of mental preparation time) is not exactly accurate. After all this is not the first time this has happened.
Also, hard truth, SG is not medal hopefuls la, 4 seconds or youth exposure?
Lucky tennis only have doubles, singles... not so complicated as other sports...
Anyway some blame shd be apportioned to the sg aquatics management for the admin fiasco......
El Nina has kicked in till rest of the year, so we'd expect cooler weather...
from what i understand quah simply did not make the cut. if quah went , she can only swim in the relay . if gan went , gan can swim in the relay and other events.
it is that simple .
Technically, there are still 2 out of 4 of the relay swimmers who “did not make the cut”, but they are still going
@@YahLahButthat’s the rule. 2 relay only swimmers. Quah is omitted bcos she happened to be swimming the freestyle leg. It’s that simple.
@@jimw8615 so gan is replacing quah in free style leg of relay ... and also compete in her own individual events... so it is reasonable for quah to be replaced what ...
@@YahLahButthey are still going bcos they form the 2 only relay swimmers. Simple as ABC
The problem in Spain is businessmen buying the properties to use as brothels. The Paradise night club alone have 1800 prostitutes. I went there in 2022 and i thoroughly enjoyed myself. But also do note that i score full marks for Moral Education when i was in primary school.
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Apparently, it seems all swimmers & stakeholders involved know the selection very well including B cut coming in at a later date. So SAQ don’t see the need to explain or make public anything wrt selection process. However, Quah went to all media to blow it up. So initially, everyone seems to think SAQ cock it up. Now, everything seems to be clear according to the policy & processes. Public don’t need to get involved in the first place
Why can’t the public be involved? It’s about representing Singapore isn’t it?!
Or is there Something to hide??
@@Callsign-Blade_RunnerSGu don’t seem to understand the meaning of my comments. Did the Table tennis? Badminton? Athletic,… association explain to you their selection policy & process? They represent Singapore too.
PAP explains to you how they select our PM? He represents Singapore too. U represent Singapore?
@@jimw8615
Exactly my point! Thus the need for MORE transparency…
@@Callsign-Blade_RunnerSGu really think they are gonna inform u? u r living in yr own world. U r a nobody. Yr neighbour business need to be transparent to u?
And being so confusing details in the news make me think that they are trying to hide and cover up by confusing us.
angry munah
can invite our good friend SRY to comment on this as well, since he likes to steal the spotlight and do a shameless plug for his 'running school' while detracting from the issue on hand.
Strange that the TRACK RECORDS of good performance by athletes are consistently being overlooked by our organisations… 🤔
Perhaps AGEISM has something to do with it. If it was the case than they must be called out for the age discrimination!
As for the Protest against tourism, the problem is that the wealth from tourism is not trickling down to the average citizens but only to businesses leading to the growing Rich Poor wealth gap within the city.
Just build new hotels for tourists and ban Airbnb for short term apartment stays.
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Very clear explanation. Association seems fair, individual was not out front with facts and she seem victimized. May be associated should get harish to explain the process if they can't.
Only if they fly Haresh to Paris also
Quah Ting Wen should go, as she qualified with the relay team. So it’s a question of sending 4 vs sending 1. Ching Wei is a distance swimmer, not a speedster so to say. Maybe a fairer way would be to organise a 100m freestyle race between Ching Wei and Ting Wen. Without Ting Wen, the relay team ain’t going to break any records right? Even if Ching Wei goes, she is not going to make any dent in her 800m and 1,500m. So to me, it’s very clear - either send 4 (the original relay team) or send 1 (Ching Wei).
That race off would have made for great drama
Only the relay team can break record? Gan cannot break record for her 800m and 1500m? The relay team did not technically qualify by their own merit while Gan did, why should the relay match get priority?
It’s not sending 4 vs 1. 4 are still going to Paris. Jus not Quah. 4 in relay. 2 must qualify individually. Which we hv now. No brainer.
Initially, we are lucky cos World Aquatics gave us exemptions to go with 3 unqualified individually. Now we can qualify for Paris relay in the proper channel.