On the foreign talent medal saga

[jemauvais]

I read in Mr Brown yesterday about how our Singapore Silver girl, Li Jiawei, was interviewed by China Central Television and during the interview, she said:

"自己是个北京人, 又是中国人。 我希望能在自己的本土， 自己的地盘上， 能够取得一枚奖牌。"My Chinese is quite bad, but even I can grasp more or less what she's saying.  IMO, that's not a very bright thing to say, especially when people

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[jemauvais]

*rolls eyes*

[cheshirefeline]

His marbles. A long time back.

The quote really cracked me up, man.

[msbrightside]

Li Jiawei needs a half-decent press rep, methinks.

[jemauvais]

Exactly!  Did she not think the people back here were going to wonder what happened to the "新加坡人" bit?