Hey guys,
Today, i will be posting about the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) that will be starting in 8hrs and 30 mins!! No doubt, I am really excited about the YOG. However, there are certain things that i am looking forward to, whilst certain things that i might not want to look forward to. Of course, being a Track and Fielder myself, I am looking forward to the track and field competitions, paying more attention to Pole Vault. I am a Pole Vaulter myself and would dream to become a national pole vaulter. I am also looking forward to soccer and basketball, my favourite ball games. I have great understanding about soccer, and have been following up with recent news about soccer and its players. But not about YOUTH soccer. I am interested to see how the top youths around the world play the game that requires tactics and sportsmanship. Same goes to basket ball.
The things that i am not looking forward to is the opening and closing ceremony of the YOG. Having reading and keeping up with news about YOG, I have not heard any pleasant news about the opening and closing ceremony of YOG. All i have read is that Singapore is not putting enough effort in making the opening ceremony a memorable one. I have overheard from my friends that the opening ceremony is worse than the annual National Day performance! I wish that Singapore would hold an opening ceremony that has the standard of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, being the first country to hold the Youth Olympic Games.
Bye!
Cleon
Even though the YOG is an inaugural event and it is held in Singapore, I feel that Singapore did not plan it well enough. This is partly because I did not get to personally watch the events myself as the events are mostly held during school days. I also feel that Singapore did not publicise the Games well enough as there were many empty seats during the games. Even though statistics show that all tickets were sold, many people did not turn up, causing many seats to be empty. I feel that they can resell the empty seats to passers-by who wants to watch the matches.
ReplyDeleteThis is Darrell Tan(10) 2a4
I agree with Darrell, as my mother too felt that Singapore did not publicize enough in our own country, and only did so in other countries. I feel that though this will increase the number of tourists and expand our economy, in social affairs it is not doing good, because Singaporeans (Or at least me) will feel that we are not important in our government's eyes or not that respected as foreign people. Thus, I feel that Singapore should do something like a holiday or a special day that a school can go an watch YOG to fill up the empty spaces that Darrell mentioned.
ReplyDeleteI feel that the opening ceremony was very well planned and was definitely memorable! Though you may feel that how the story is presented may be a little 'lame', you must consider the amount of effort to plan and write a story that people from around the world will be able to understand easily. The opening ceremony must combine Singapore's history with the olympic values, and i feel that they have truly succeeded in doing so. So i hope that we, being citizens of the host country, can be more appreciative of the work done by the organizers.
ReplyDeleteMarcus Lau De Hao
I feel that despite the fact that the monster scene might have been a little corny, and there may have been quite a few mistakes made during the opening ceremony, it was still rather awesome. As a Singaporean, I am proud that Singapore is the first country to host the Youth Olympic Games. And we should all be.
ReplyDeleteHowever, as for those who did not turn up for the various competitions, I feel that they are being very irresponsible and insensitive to the effort put in by the Organising Committee and the sportsperson. Imagine what it would feel like to turn up at a match or performance expecting huge cheers from the crowd, only to find a large amount of the chairs empty.
If those people really did not want to turn up, they could have just sold their tickets to someone who might have wanted it more than them.
Therefore, I agree with Darrell, Ke Xuen and Marcus Lau's viewpoint.