Tan Howe Liang Receives $10,000

ramseth said:

i thought that they're going to pay him $500,000 (current olympic silver medal going rate in singapore) plus interests from 1960 to 2008. Sigh... Is that an award or an insult?


olympic medallist tan howe liang receives s$10,000 cash award
by margaret perry & wong siew ying, channel newsasia | posted: 31 august 2008 2030 hrs
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singapore: Singapore's silver medal win at the beijing olympics prompted celebrations across the island. At the same time, the nation's first olympic medallist has not been forgotten.

Tan howe liang shared the stage and the spoils with singapore's latest olympic medallists at a celebration on saturday. Like the three table tennis players – feng tianwei, li jiawei and wang yuegu – mr tan received a warm reception from the crowd, as well as a s$10,000 cheque from ntuc fairprice.

Seah kian peng, managing director of ntuc fairprice, said: "he continues to be a great inspiration to the entire sporting fraternity and to all singaporeans. People like him are able to inspire people like us to try to do what we believe we can.

"he continues to be highlighted at each olympics because he is a big inspiration, and he remains an active, humble person that everyone wants to help."

mr tan took silver for weightlifting in the 1960 olympic games – a first for singapore. Back then, there were no cash reward schemes for sports excellence.

Since the women's table tennis team took the silver in beijing and with it, a s$750,000 cash reward, there have been calls for mr tan to be rewarded as well for his trail-blazing feat 48 years ago.

Prime minister lee hsien loong said: "i am glad they did that, it's a good gesture and we remember him fondly because for 48 years, he was the one man who broke through and it has taken us a long time to equal his record."

as for singapore's first olympic hero, he declined to give a tv interview, but said he was grateful for the recognition and the cash gift.


- cna/so

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joker88 said:

Then he dun need to work as a cleaner for National Stadium Gym liao.

Actually, I pity him also. Nobody knows him until recent years when PAPaya start to import FT for olympic medals.

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Maverick01 said:

They say he work as "gym supervisor"

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tonychat said:

Exactly... That is what inspiration is all about,

This is an example of using money to insult people. There is a Hong Kong show i remember that a cleaner guy who open the door for the mafia to enter his own car. It happens that the car stop near him. The mafia bodyguard took out a stack of notes and piece by piece slipped out from his hand to the floor for the cleaner to pick up. The cleaner still thank him profusely. ( while picking up the money from the floor). The next scene shows that the cleaner eating a packet of fried rice.

That is how mafia behave... but the Sinkie govt..????

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gbomega said:

I think that is after it is reported that he got a raise as supervisor... maybe they'll send him for a doctorate and put him as weight lifting coach...

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Jah_rastafar_I said:

I think that movie is a better tomorrow and the cleaner guy is chow yuen fatt and the mafia guy was his former underling now his boss. Was that the movie???

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hungary fighter said:

$10,000 better than nothing.....can still go chiong 4 half a year at least.....

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