"THAILAND again criticized the Philippines yesterday over its handling of the 23rd Southeast Asian Games and vowed to do a better job when it hosts the event in 2007." Full story
It's like in that final episode of Friends where Rachel is on a plane waiting for take off when Phoebe calls her on the cellphone and tells her "something is wrong with the left Philange." Rachel assures her nothing was wrong with the plane but the other passengers overhear her, panic, and scurry out anyway. In what began as a diplomatic faux pas committed by Minh (irreverent git heading the Vietnamese delegation), some figureheads of participating countries seem to have joined the mad soundbyte rush--as if Sideshow Minh needed an encore.
I don't know if Minh was ever caught by local news media since arriving but he pretty much stayed out of sight and let his gofers do damage control.
Now, you have Thaksin Shinawatra taking a swipe at the "host country" just because his athletes are competing below expectations. Really now, how'd he know for sure that there is widespread cheating? Takes one to know one, don't it? He says Manila should focus on promoting sportsmanship more...perhaps because he's uninitiated on the matter.
It's like in that final episode of Friends where Rachel is on a plane waiting for take off when Phoebe calls her on the cellphone and tells her "something is wrong with the left Philange." Rachel assures her nothing was wrong with the plane but the other passengers overhear her, panic, and scurry out anyway. In what began as a diplomatic faux pas committed by Minh (irreverent git heading the Vietnamese delegation), some figureheads of participating countries seem to have joined the mad soundbyte rush--as if Sideshow Minh needed an encore.
I don't know if Minh was ever caught by local news media since arriving but he pretty much stayed out of sight and let his gofers do damage control.
Now, you have Thaksin Shinawatra taking a swipe at the "host country" just because his athletes are competing below expectations. Really now, how'd he know for sure that there is widespread cheating? Takes one to know one, don't it? He says Manila should focus on promoting sportsmanship more...perhaps because he's uninitiated on the matter.
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