Saturday, August 16, 2008

Cambodian 100m Sprinter Titlinda Sou at the 2008 Beijing Olympics

Valentina Nazarova of Turkmenistan (L), Chandra Sturrup of Bahamas (2nd L), Kelly-Ann Baptiste of Trinidad and Tobago and Titlinda Sou of Cambodia (R) sprint during their women's 100m heat in the athletics competition of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games at the National Stadium August 16, 2008. REUTERS/Mike Blake
Fathia Ali Bourrale of Djibouti (front) and Titlinda Sou of Cambodia look at the scoreboard after their women's 100m heat in the athletics competition of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games at the National Stadium August 16, 2008. REUTERS/Mike Blake

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Congrats to Titlinda Sou!!!
For, you come a long way my sister!

Anonymous said...

You must train khmers

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=0eKF5PYAiaA&NR=1

Anonymous said...

Someone sponsor her to live and train in the US, so she can represent Khmer. Don't rely on the Cambodia government, they are unpatriotic bunch. we're proud of you of presenting us, Titlinda.

Sino-Khmer

Anonymous said...

2:54 PM

I doubt it. I doubt any Khmer overseas are that generous. Your talk sounds very good but people are too self-concerned to care about others to that level you described. If you think your talk makes Khmer overseas look good, I hope you have conscience to realize that what you said was all more showy than realistic.

However, prove me wrong about what I said when you find anyone who would do what you request, maybe yourself?

Anonymous said...

I don't think we need to bring that people to train in US to make them strong. It will be so expensive and it would be a wast of resource. If there are good people want to improve their ability and can support them, just provide them enough support for training facilities and wage to live, so that they don't need to share time to support their lives and pay for training facilities and so on. Do like this, we could train 10 in Cambodia, instead of bring one to US.

Anonymous said...

Hey! For Cambodian to qualify to show up at the Olympic Game is good enough already! It is a fact that Cambodia has a long way to go to produce good athletics!

I somewhat I agree with Sino-Khmer after all the United States have the most medalists than any country and they must be doing something right!

I believe having good training facilities and a living wage for Cambodian athletics is not good enough! It is like throwing a book at a student and telling to go learn on their own without a teacher! The fact is athletics need good teacher (coach) to show them the way to be the best that they can be!

Anonymous said...

First of all I just want to say congratulations to Titlinda who has been working so hard on her own time while she is doing other things to support her family, most likely, and herself. I am so proud of her willingness to come forward to represent Cambodian people and her nation, Cambodia. I hope there are lots of people out there who will donate some money to support her training, coach, facility for training, and especially to support her daily basic needs so that she can soley focuses on her training instead of worrying on other things. Again Good luck for your future Titlinda! I am very proud of your motivation and encouragement.

Again Congratulations...

Anonymous said...

She deserves much more respect and a pride to the nation, unlike ah Hun Sen and his fucked up family.

Anonymous said...

Hu Sen don't give a shit about olympic game.
He's busy counting the chairs in the parliament (grabbing power).

Anonymous said...

It's easy to break one chopstick. And it's tough to break 100 chopsticks at the same time.

Here we are not so generous.
Still, we can easily give 10$ per person to an athlete.

This will make easily 20000 a year. Like SRP collect every year.

In Cambodia, there's so many peasants because of the regime.
CPP give an athlete 300, it's look they have give 100 000.
Communist !!!
Here people give 10 dollars without expecting something back. And only wishing to people a good luck and a hope.

Khmer Canadian

Anonymous said...

Sister, we (Khmer) are proud of what you've done for our country without having worn 1000-dollar running shoes to compete in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

You've already made up proud!

Again, congratulations and thank you for representing the Kingdom of Cambodia.

Khmer farmer

Anonymous said...

Olympic is a movement of sports. Each country should have sent as many as their sport person to compete with others in each event as they can. The country with less development, less educational development would think that competing in each even is a waste of their country monies. But country with strong social development will value this event as a very important as other sector of their economy. Offcourse, to train a good sport person each country needs to invest such as human resourses, facilities and times. At the end, each country can be prouded of their citizen archievement. Cambodian spent a lot of monies each year on body guards for each individuals. This prove that that country is a long way to human development. It is still at a stage of human confrontation to each others which is similar to the ape society. Areak Prey

Anonymous said...

Olympic is a movement of sports. Each country should have sent as many as their sport person to compete with others in each event as they can. The country with less development, less educational development would think that competing in each even is a waste of their country monies. But country with strong social development will value this event as a very important as other sector of their economy. Offcourse, to train a good sport person each country needs to invest such as human resourses, facilities and times. At the end, each country can be prouded of their citizen archievement. Cambodian spent a lot of monies each year on body guards for each individuals. This prove that that country is a long way to human development. It is still at a stage of human confrontation to each others which is similar to the ape society. Areak Prey