Ideology can affect your definition of selfish…
From CBS Sportsline:
China’s official sports association has issued an unprecedented public criticism of Yao Ming for reporting late to national team training.
The Houston Rockets star was faulted for taking too much time off to recover from the NBA season, as well spending too much time planning his wedding and making appearances for the Special Olympics and 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
“No matter how lofty public welfare activities are, they can’t be allowed to take first place in a player’s life,” the China Sports Daily, a newspaper owned by the government’s All-China Sports Federation, said in an article Tuesday.
“No matter how sweet personal life is, it can’t be compared to the exultation of capturing glory for one’s nation,” the article said.
Don’t you hate it when people put family and disadvantaged children before a meaningless international scrimmage?
on July 21st, 2007 at 12:55 am
Wow, I’m surprised they would issue something like that publicly.
Nationalism always brings out the best in people.
on July 21st, 2007 at 11:39 am
I don’t get the problem. Yao Ming isn’t meeting the expectations of his employer. Yet just because the Chinese national sports teams pursue national glory rather than profit, you’re mocking them for trying to make their employee be productive?
on July 24th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Employee, slave… another good example of ideology affecting your views.
on July 24th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
How is Yao Ming a slave? You don’t think he could quit playing basketball?
And even if he can’t, I think that’s a separate issue than the Chinese government’s interest in making 1.whatever billion Chinese people feel proud–that’s what they’re paying Yao Ming for.