Let the BLAMES begin...

It looks like it will be a medal shut-out as the Olympics is on its final week of competitions! This is the result of continuous bickering between our Sports Officials that has been prevalent since 1986. Never has the Filipino Athletes been so humiliated that even countries who cannot even provide decent sports equipment to their athletes were competitively better than ours. So much for our leaders' intentional false hopes for the nation and bold predictions about winning a gold medal when competing for the just the bronze weren't even achievable.

And so the government shall just keep the 15-million peso incentive and use it for their own purposes. Forget about long-term solutions like the necessary budget allotment for the training and benefits of athletes. At least there wont be anymore press releases and commendations in Malacañang, with the government intentionally riding on the athletes' popularity for personal beautification purposes, trying to minimize it's damaged reputation. There won't be ticker tape parades which stalls traffic within Manila roads, and positively, we will be denied of those politicians more actively waving than those who sweat-ed it out competing against the world's best athletes.

With the whole world improving on their training methods, with even the Kenyans whom before, their track and field team virtually trains barefoot, our athletes took a backslide, because it is much more interesting to watch sports leaders fighting it out with each other. Only a handful were able to train harder, particularly those US-born, fed, and studied in American NCAA schools, rich kids who can pay for their expenses in international competitions, luckily-sponsored sportsmen even donning his sponsor logo occupying the whole of his shorts all the way to the buttocks side, while the others are contented with measly allowances, unable to cope up with the soaring prices of fuel, food allowances that can pass up as food rations for disaster victims in a Rescue Center, while the bulk of the government's budget are being used in the travel expenses of our dearly beloved, I mean, MOST EXPENSIVE LEADER (pinakamamahal na pangulo).

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And today's news featured anew the Pilate-eous acts of our Sports Officials - washing their hands from all these failures. These very same Sports Officials who were bold enough to predict our positive chances for the first gold medal harvest in Beijing. These very same official who hugged the limelight prior to the games, confident of our chances to show the world how we “have” already improved on the our training in connection to our competitive involvement in the Olympic events. These very same officials who sits in their air-conditioned office almost eight hours a day, thinks of something beneficial for the good of the sports program yet doesn't know anything about the sports. This has always been our country's dilemma whenever we put some politician to lead our sports agencies. How can someone who cannot even shoot the ball learn how to coach?

As the Games is about to end this Sunday, and with the imminent failure of our athletes – not necessarily their fault - to improve their performance, another epic battle will happen within our sports agencies:

Let the BLAMES begin...