Olympic Pedestals

Exceptional Olympic athletes, throughout the centuries, have forged diverging pathways to fame and honour. Anyone who has kept a log on the Games would know. To stand onto that pedestal is to have lived the most and best out of life. It is to recognise every sweat, smile, tear and hours of practice on that very platform, because all their excruciating efforts have been compensated with full-fledged respect. And the pride, dignity and honour these athletes receive from the thunderous crowd roars and blinding camera flashes, pinning them onto that single stage are everything they've worked their asses off for.

The exploding aura of amazement emanating from any television set is enough to supersize it into a 52 inch plasma T.V. Every facial expression that the camera fished out was pronounced in such raw admiration that I, too, was drunk on the heavily manifested glory. Singapore has also won an immense accolades in the Olympics - credits to Lee Jia Wei and team. The moment was pretty exotic, if you ask me, since I had never been prouder to be a table tennis player in my own right.

Who is to say? It's true hard work sometimes never pays off, but when it does, it's earned. The Olympian gods may not be the only ones with the power to portend champions.