Photo: Singapore contingent returning from the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow; Team Singapore Facebook
Australian veteran paddler William Henzell has attacked Singapore for sending a team largely dominated by Chinese-born players to the Commonwealth Games.
He described that the move was not “in the spirit of the Games” and was “disappointing to see”.
While Australia also has non-natives on its team, these make up only half of the lineup, as compared to Singapore, which has a whopping eight Chinese-born players.
One of them is Ning Gao, to whom Henzell had lost 15-7 11-6 9-11 11-7 11-6 to, at the quarter-final game on Aug. 1.
“They decided it was much easier and quicker to buy a team rather than produce a team,” he’d said to AAP.
