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More info from the VancouverSun's report : http://www.vancouversun.com/spor ... /2604198/story.html

For me, I felt upset about the team if what the coach said is right (have nothing to do with which nationality they are).  And if you watched the game, you may have the same feeling too.

What kind of lame excuse saying that the coach is jealous.  He is the coach and he should be the one proud of the team he built up in 2 years time.  Why not saying that China is not going to renew his contract, and that's why he said something like this.  It would make a bit more sense.

There are athletes with loads of passion and they show in their races, even they aren't top competitors.  If you see Olympics is ONLY about national pride, you may have missed a whole lot.  And if what you said is exactly how China see Olympics, then it is just too bad for China.  And that will explain why the coach does fit this job from day one.

FYI, the China speed skating team spent most of their years training in Calgary and few also had Canadian coaches.  From their interview, they did show their passion about the sport, even being away from home with all the harsh training and not able to score for the gold medal (yet).

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Basically they have no obligation to entertain you.  If you don't like to see them play, switch to another channel.
快樂牛郎 發表於 2010-2-26 10:56

Stop giving out lame excuse, which applies to almost everything but meaningless.  One could said Tiger woods has no obligation to entertain you with his personal sex life, so according to the excuse, we have no right to talk about it and women have no right to put their hate on him.  LOL.

Again, I feel disappointed with the China curling team because of their behavior (if that's true), not because of their nationality.  If Canada team did that, I feel the same on them.

I see Olympics differently and I put focus on the athletes rather than treating as a show.  Of course you could think it as stupid and switch channel too.  Peace.

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Yes, the athletes do NOT have to care about what that LYK said here.  You're the one who care what we said here whenever the word "China" appears.  LOL.

Maybe you personally know everyone high up in China and know what their expectation to the curling team.  Otherwise, how do you know they satisfied everyone's expectation?  They sure failed to achieved in the "sportmanship" category in few people's dictionary.

It made me smile when I saw an reply above just having : "la la la la la la .. la la la la la ..".  You're just so predicatable, Peter.

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So you and I both don't know them, and you and I both don't know much about curling.  We are even. (if not, tell us how much you know about curling)  You don't have to side track your line so far to push your rank in an argument, while you aren't.  LOL.

From my spectator perspective and what I read the coach said in the news, I'm upset with the team (if that's true, once again).  I agree they did a good job to score bronze.  

I'm not here to convince you to think as I'm.  I'm here to said what I feel.  Easy.  

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I don't see how controversial in what the coach said.  The major complain from the coach is the team instable performance and their lack of passion (said by the coach).  

Their game against Canada is so good and even the coach said nobody could defect this team if they keep that performance.  He made the complain after the Rassian game because the team's performance was so low.  Now, on this bronze medal game, the team bounce back.  It just proved what the coach said is correct about their instability.

The coach now said he satisfied with the performance in bronze medal, however, how's that related to the team's passion?

This team has a long way to growth, and I do hope they improve in all aspect and regain their passion about the sport.

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Haha..  discussion with Peter is always lengthy because you never read carefully.  LOL.

Please read what I wrote with your glasses: "He made the complain after the Rassian game because the team's performance was so low."

Please quote me the news about the controversial part if you don't mind.  Thx.  I don't whole heartly trust western news or Chinese news and neither do you.  So why this time, western media said something and you quote it and trust it so much.  

Yes, nobody should and nobody would care much about what I said.  Maybe you're the exception since you keep replying.  

Have a nice weekend.