PARIS: While not all of Singapore's athletes may have been able to land the 'winning touch' at the Paris Olympics, the Games will provide the experience for them to learn and grow, said a top sports official.Speaking at a wrap-up press conference for the Paris Olympics on Saturday (Aug 10), Singapore Sports Institute (SSI) chief Su Chun Wei said the contingent is young and will learn with experience."Yes, we need to string together the consistency and that winning touch.
No doubt about it. We may not have fully done so in each of our athletes' performances. However I would like to share something more optimistic: It is that our cohort of athletes are very young," he told reporters."Two-thirds are debutants and a number of them are teenagers.
If you track each and every one of their performance ... in the last one, two years, you will see at the regional and at the Asian level, they have overcome higher-ranked opponents."Building on that, Dr Su added that the athletes need to come away from this Olympics with knowing how to win at the critical moment and be "ruthless" about it."They have an indomitable fighting spirit.
But I agree that learning to win that winning point takes experience, and our consolation and optimism is that our cohort of Olympians ...