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Dear Straits Times, I refer to the 14 Aug 2012 letter “Not as sports-crazy as China? Imagine these...” by Mr David Foo. Mr Foo professes to use examples to show how wrong Mr Christopher Ong was when he concluded that uniting the nation through national sports is overblown. Mr Foo should consider the context in which Mr Ong... 

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...