10 reasons why Malaysia will never be a sporting power (final 4 reasons)

Here's the rest of my post:

7) Our sports selectors are good... at selecting failures:

Time and again our athletes fail to produce the goods when it matters, on the world stage, even though they claim 'to be in their best phase of training'. Well, as an outsider, I cannot comment on the veracity of such statements, but there are certain groups of people who can, the national team selectors. One would assume these selectors constantly have a finger on the pulse as far as athletes' training is concerned, but why they repeatedly send the same duds to get themselves humiliated escapes me. I say, it is time to give some of our bona fide 'jaguh kampung' from our bona fide 'kampungs' a chance. After all, however badly they perform, they cannot do worse than what our 'elite' athletes are producing.

8) Our talent scouts idolise Big Foot:
In a country of 24 million, there are bound to be some world class sportsmen. Hell, the Czech Republic has 10 million citizens, yet they can scrape together not 1 but at least 22 truly world class athletes to compete in serious competitions like the World Cup. Meanwhile, our selectors struggle to string together a side that can challenge for a small mug like the Tiger Cup. Selectors shoulder the blame, to a certain extent, because you got to admit that you do not have much choice when your options are limited to some David Beckham wannabes with the hair and boots but not the skills. To discover the other guilty party, we must go down nearer to the grassroots. World champions do not just drop out of the sky like Superman, they must be unearthed and nurtured. And where can we find these raw gems but in the schools and fields? Unfortunately, we drew the short end of the straw by having talent scouts who do not like to do field work. How many times have we heard of sporting gods being discovered playing or running barefoot in his neighborhood field? But how many times has this happened in Malaysia with good talent, nevermind the geniuses? Forget Big Foot, these scouts are so elusive that you can only see them at some big inter-school competition. And what is the point when most of the kids there that shine have some form of training anyway. Looks like our 'raw' talent are actually only considered 'rare', huh? (bonus marks for those who catch the pun) Suggestion: Fire our current scouts and use the money to set up a hotline ala 'Rakan Cop' for the public who catch sight of a potential Zidane or Ronaldo.

9) Sporting talent seems to be connected with skin colour:
Our small talent pool is dried up even further because certain sports seem to be enjoyed by a single race, thus possibly eliminating a future Yao Ming just because he is too tanned. Personally, I am perplexed by the lack of Chinese in distance running, simply because of the misconception that Indians and Malays are 'better' at it. More often than not, this type of pigeonholing can only happen in Malaysia though, as the last time I checked, the distance running records of the far eastern countries (China, Japan, Korea) are still better than India's. There are other examples to support that races and skin tone has nothing to do with aptitude in a certain sport, such as the captain of the national basketball team being Indian, and one of the top national table-tennis players being Malay.

10) Sport is rather low on the agenda..., riiiiight after washing the toilet and doing the dishes:
You know, for all the talk of discovering talent, nurturing them, building cutting edge facilities, then selecting the best ones for competition, what happens when there are no talents to be discovered? I mean, fewer and fewer kids do sport just because of sport, they usually do it just to get something in return, like some declaration on a cert just so they can get into university. Consequently, kids who do this will always see sport as a chore, an afterthought, and these kids form the majority. A lot of them loathe the idea of getting soaked in sweat and grime that they willingly forgo they endorphine high accompanying said sweat and grime. I wager that most of them would rather clean the loo and do dishes than run a couple of laps around the field. Magic solution: make our loos waaaaaay bigger, as in big enough to fit godzilla, and substitute plates with 10 kg dumbell weights, then at least sport will get bumped up a notch or two.