Little known Olympic fact, S'pore robbed Canada of Silver medal
In the 1988 Seoul Olympics, Canadian Lawrence Lemieux was competing in the Finn class sailing competition off Pusan. Finn class is for solo sailors. Nearby in the another course was the 470 class competition which features 2 men crew. The wind was quite strong that day, and the Singapore pair of Joseph Chan and Shaw Her SIew was competing in this class. Chan and Shaw kept capsizing in the rough seas, and in one final capsize, one of them was in the water and the other was under the capsized boat and appeared injured.
At this point, Lemieux spotted their predicament from his adjoining course, and veered off his course in the middle of his race to rescue them. He pulled them out of the water one by one and waited for the patrol boat to pick up the 2 wet sinkies. According to Lemieux, "The Singapore rescue boats were, quite frankly, useless.'' Of course, by this time, he had lost all chances of medalling. He was in second place when he did it, and was a favourite to medal in this event. Because of his sportsmanship in rescuing 2 wet dog incompetent sinkies, the IOC President, Samanrach, at that time awarded him the Pierre de Coubertin medal for outstanding sportmanship.
To this day, there is no public record of SIngapore Sports council ever acknowledging the rescue, and thanking Lemieux for saving two drowning sinkies. In fact, Shaw Her SIew is chairman of the SIngapore Sailing federation, and occasionally runs into Lemieux at international meetings, but bor chap him and never kept in touch with him. I would rather give $250k to someone who has done the country a real service by saving 2 sinkies over a PRC mercenary. He should have been invited to singapore, and feted, and treated as a hero here. But I am sure the singapore sports council is very embarassed over this incident and hushed it up. I remember this incident back in 1988, I recall the sailors were simply listed as having capsized and did not finish the course. No mention was made of their rescue by an another sailor from canada. SHaw better go and prostrate himself in front of Lemieux and offer prayers to him for saving his life 20 years ago.
Any chance of any sinkie olympian showing this level of sportmanship? Hahahaha, hell will freeze over first, followed by Old Goat returning all the money he stole, before that happens.
In the 1988 Seoul Olympics, Canadian Lawrence Lemieux was competing in the Finn class sailing competition off Pusan. Finn class is for solo sailors. Nearby in the another course was the 470 class competition which features 2 men crew. The wind was quite strong that day, and the Singapore pair of Joseph Chan and Shaw Her SIew was competing in this class. Chan and Shaw kept capsizing in the rough seas, and in one final capsize, one of them was in the water and the other was under the capsized boat and appeared injured.
At this point, Lemieux spotted their predicament from his adjoining course, and veered off his course in the middle of his race to rescue them. He pulled them out of the water one by one and waited for the patrol boat to pick up the 2 wet sinkies. According to Lemieux, "The Singapore rescue boats were, quite frankly, useless.'' Of course, by this time, he had lost all chances of medalling. He was in second place when he did it, and was a favourite to medal in this event. Because of his sportsmanship in rescuing 2 wet dog incompetent sinkies, the IOC President, Samanrach, at that time awarded him the Pierre de Coubertin medal for outstanding sportmanship.
To this day, there is no public record of SIngapore Sports council ever acknowledging the rescue, and thanking Lemieux for saving two drowning sinkies. In fact, Shaw Her SIew is chairman of the SIngapore Sailing federation, and occasionally runs into Lemieux at international meetings, but bor chap him and never kept in touch with him. I would rather give $250k to someone who has done the country a real service by saving 2 sinkies over a PRC mercenary. He should have been invited to singapore, and feted, and treated as a hero here. But I am sure the singapore sports council is very embarassed over this incident and hushed it up. I remember this incident back in 1988, I recall the sailors were simply listed as having capsized and did not finish the course. No mention was made of their rescue by an another sailor from canada. SHaw better go and prostrate himself in front of Lemieux and offer prayers to him for saving his life 20 years ago.
Any chance of any sinkie olympian showing this level of sportmanship? Hahahaha, hell will freeze over first, followed by Old Goat returning all the money he stole, before that happens.
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