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Serious Some Facts about Joseph Schooling, you decide for yourself

Papsmearer

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Joseph Issac Schooling, born in SIngapore. Father is a 3rd generation singaporean of mixed English and Eurasian Portuguese heritage. Mother is a Malaysian Chinese who is a singapore PR. She has been living in singapore for decades but has not taken up Singapore citizenship.

Went to ACS Primary school. After PSLE, his swimming potential was identified by the parents, and they decided to send him to the Jacksonville, Florida to attend the Bolles School, which is a school specializing in training atheletes, in particular swimmers. Bolles has had a swimmer alumnus or student competing in every Olympic games since 1972. Their swimming program was set up by Gregg Troy who was the US Olympic Swim coach for the 2012 Olympic games. Imagine your secondary school swimming coach is a former Olympic swimmer and coached Michael Phelps in the 2012 Olympics!! What a powerhouse your school would be in the pool. because he is an international student, Bolles has a boarding program for its foreign students. The cost of one year of school fees and room and board is USD $47,000. Guess how much the PAP and SNOC contributed to this amount. Zero would be a fair guess.

After he graduated from Bolles, he was offered a swim scholarship at University of Texas, one of the top 5 swimming programs amongst US universities. The Head Coach for the U of T swimming program is Eddie Reese, former head coach of the US Olympics swim team in the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. If you know anything about the swim program, you know that nothing is left to chance. Professional full-time dieticians, sports psychologist, strenght and conditioning coaches, multi million weight rooms, etc are all part and parcel of what atheletes get when they go there. But even on a scholarship, its not cheap, with frequent travel to Singapore to compete in the SEA and Asian games and other social visits. Also, out of pocket costs and other costs in USD is also not cheap.

It was at this point when the big hooha between Schooling's mother MINDEF took place over his deferment. After a protracted and public fight, where she used the news media to put pressure on the PAP, you know who won the fight. Unfortunately, in earlier times, without the aid of modern day internet and social media, many other atheletes were lost to NS and a short sighted govt. policy. The race driver Andrew Tang is an example of a failed request for NS deferment. Ang Peng Siong in an earlier time was another case.

So to sum it up.................
The Schoolings and not the govt paid huge money to send Joseph to Bolles for his swim coaching and studies
The Schoolings and not the govt got the U of T scholarship for Joseph, even though it seems the PAP is giving full scholarships to every tom dick and harry FT
The PAP wanted to sabotage the whole thing by making him do NS at such a critical junction in his swim career, and it would have happened if not for his mother's intervention.

The other Republic swimmer Quah Zheng Wen was not so fortunate that his family can send him to Bolles and hence is stuck with no name national coach carlos lopez, a bronze medallist in the Olympics and with the pathetic facilities in singapore. If Quah had the same opportunities, maybe we have 2 medals or more.

U decide how much credit the PAP should get. Then see how many of these assholes jump on the bandwagon until it breaks.
 

blueRad

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His mum has already questioned why Singapore should get all the glory given that Singapore did not groomed him and decides to groom FT instead.
 

Leongsam

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He's good because he has Ang Moh bloodline . If he was of the usual southern chinese peasant stock he would be nowhere.
 

scroobal

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Guarantee you the shameless PAP will do the following

1) Organise huge welcome reception at the Airport with huge banner

2) Organise a ticker tape parade in a Town Centre

3) Town Centres will hang huge banners

4) Bilahari Kausikan will write a tribute about him in Facebook and actually mention that he identified him as a gold medal winner in 2014.

5) SPH will write a series of article and how the Singapore Sports Council shaped his future.

At the end of it even PAP kindergarten kids will think that PAP identified him as the talent.
 

Reddog

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He's good because he has Ang Moh bloodline . If he was of the usual southern chinese peasant stock he would be nowhere.

If you are non Chinese, please do not be dismayed because it really is not your fault. For us Chinese, we are always grateful for the privilege to be descendants of the dragon. Proud of the supreme status of our motherland, China. Life goes on whatever your frustrations.
 

Narong Wongwan

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Celebrate this win for a fellow true blue sinkie.
Fuck the pap.
Will enjoy seeing those shameless pappies falling over themselves to claim credit and por lampar of this new sinkie hero. Make him a NMP perhaps?
 

batman1

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It was at this point when the big hooha between Schooling's mother MINDEF took place over his deferment. After a protracted and public fight, where she used the news media to put pressure on the PAP, you know who won the fight. Unfortunately, in earlier times, without the aid of modern day internet and social media, many other atheletes were lost to NS and a short sighted govt. policy. The race driver Andrew Tang is an example of a failed request for NS deferment. Ang Peng Siong in an earlier time was another case.

So to sum it up.................
The Schoolings and not the govt paid huge money to send Joseph to Bolles for his swim coaching and studies
The Schoolings and not the govt got the U of T scholarship for Joseph, even though it seems the PAP is giving full scholarships to every tom dick and harry FT
The PAP wanted to sabotage the whole thing by making him do NS at such a critical junction in his swim career, and it would have happened if not for his mother's intervention.

The other Republic swimmer Quah Zheng Wen was not so fortunate that his family can send him to Bolles and hence is stuck with no name national coach carlos lopez, a bronze medallist in the Olympics and with the pathetic facilities in singapore. If Quah had the same opportunities, maybe we have 2 medals or more.

U decide how much credit the PAP should get. Then see how many of these assholes jump on the bandwagon until it breaks.

If Patrick Tan can get 12 years NS deferment to do PhD in soil studies,how come they are not allowed deferment ?
 

steffychun

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Guarantee you the shameless PAP will do the following

1) Organise huge welcome reception at the Airport with huge banner

2) Organise a ticker tape parade in a Town Centre

3) Town Centres will hang huge banners

4) Bilahari Kausikan will write a tribute about him in Facebook and actually mention that he identified him as a gold medal winner in 2014.

5) SPH will write a series of article and how the Singapore Sports Council shaped his future.

At the end of it even PAP kindergarten kids will think that PAP identified him as the talent.

Gayle Goh will dump her chao ang moh husband for him!!!
 

Narong Wongwan

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If Patrick Tan can get 12 years NS deferment to do PhD in soil studies,how come they are not allowed deferment ?

Even if schooling doesn't have to do NS I'll salute him instead of being jealous.
Whoever can SIAM slavery and not due to white horse connections is a talent and hero.
 

bodycells

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Even if schooling doesn't have to do NS I'll salute him instead of being jealous.
Whoever can SIAM slavery and not due to white horse connections is a talent and hero.

Exactly bro.. I am very proud of schooling.. The fact that his gold medal is a total insult towards the PAP is priceless.. This day is the day that should be celebrated yearly.
 

Narong Wongwan

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Exactly bro.. I am very proud of schooling.. The fact that his gold medal is a total insult towards the PAP is priceless.. This day is the day that should be celebrated yearly.

Those dumbfucks harping on schooling's NS status are morons with misguided sense of fairness.
Here is a talented chap who has worked hard and succeed against the odds without any help from vile pappies. Do not begrudge his parents for having the money and foresight to nurture his talent. By all accounts his family is not elite and do not derived their wealth from plp pappies. So he succeeded in spite of the vile pap.

If want to harp on his NS and fairness then look no further than Patrick Tan. Talking about fairness in pap controlled Sg is just plain dumb. I say give the boy an exemption.....he more than deserved it
 

Papsmearer

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I think it has to be said that as a nation, a people, a country, a govt., and as individuals, we did almost nothing to help Schooling get to the gold medal. We did not finance him, did not support him, the PAP choose not to groom and encourage this guy. Very little of our money when to training him, and providing him the necessary support, compared to the millions we lavish on 3rd class atheletes from China and elsewhere. Not only did we not support him, we almost killed his career by making him do NS. When I say we, I mean the 70% of the morons that supported and elected the PAP. If his mother May did not fight MINDEF to get his deferment, he might still be in the SAF now doing NS. There was no mass petition from singaporeans calling for his deferment. there was no mass calling of the MPs to support him. There was no media support for him, and certainly no support from the Singapore National Olympics Committeefor his deferment. Instead, 2 angmos (one was his swim coach in U of T, Gregg Troy) and the other a technical director, Bill Swetenham of SSC, wrote in their support to ask for his deferment. Not one PAP asshole or Notable sinkie stood up for this boy.

But now that he won the Gold, everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon and be proud of him. I say that you don't have that right. Singaporeans have not earned the right to claim the limelight with him. Where were they went he needed them? Sinkies are really pathetic hypocrites. Although I am born and raised in singapore, I am ashamed of our treatment of this boy, and I certainly cannot rejoice without a hint of embarassment that we as a people almost kill this great moment.
 

hugs

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Why not you credit it to your fav Mr LKY for providing a safe haven, politically cum socially cum financially and whatever else, so that his parents can make that much money to send him over to the USA?

He's good because he has Ang Moh bloodline . If he was of the usual southern chinese peasant stock he would be nowhere.
 
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