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Dear Straits Times, I refer to the 14 Aug 2012 letter “Permanent measures of Olympic achievement” by Dr Yik Keng Yeong. Dr Yik says that the athlete’s sacrifice and devotion to the arduous process of attaining the Olympic medal makes its attainment uplifting and edifying to the national psyche. But when the attainment... 

I refer to the 14 Aug 2012 letter in Straits Times “Here’s what an Olympic medal is worth…” by Mr Philip Tan. Mr Tan claims that sports’ ability to forge national unity was proven when Team Singapore was greeted to rapturous homecoming at the airport. How many of those at the airport were direct families and friends... 

Woffle Wu Dear Mr Shanmugam, I refer to your parliament exchanges with Ms Sylvia Lim on Dr Wu’s case [1], [2]. There must have been thousands of cases that are similar to Dr Wu’s case. Six cases are not sufficient to prove anything. How do we know if the thousands of other cases which you did not pick but which are similar...