Silver Is Quite Alright, Chong Wei!!

I am absolutely not a sports-goer, let alone badminton, but I watched the finals in Beijing Olympics last night between our very own Lee Chong Wei and world number Lin Dan from China. Hopes were definitely high for our own Malaysian to win this only Gold for the country. Perhaps that's the very same thing dat dragged Chong Wei's mental strength down, and drove him to let Lin Dan smack him off straight two sets. Imagine the pressure of being the 1st to bring a gold medal home from the Olympics, for the very first time in the history of Malaysia, the feeling must be unbearable. I totally understand how stressful that must be for him. Not to mention the crowd was soaring for Lin Dan in nearly every shot.
What made most Malaysians disappointed was, perhaps they expected it to be a better fight, at least. In the 2nd set we can see Chong Wei totally worn out, pretty much without hope already. But hey, we got a Silver medal guys, for Malaysia. Whoelse can do that for Malaysia this Olympics? Let's cut him some slack, shall we....

Chong Wei - Lesson learned, we need to build ourselves with better mental strength and able ourselves to fight under the hardest pressure in the future.