In this post, I will personally pen a written reply to a facebook reply by Soh Ruiyong on my facebook page to British running stalwarts, Jon, Ben and Stuart, on the April 11th. Excerpt of the message is reproduced below so that my readers may follow the points I subsequently bring forth.
"Soh Rui Yong Ben Pickford, Stu Haynes Jon Cheal, I urge you to waste no more time on anyone named Joe KS, or "MG"... They are all the same person. He has created multiple accounts (there are more... easy to spot - dodgy profile pictures and info) to make it sound like he has supporters.
Once upon a time, this 11min 3000m steeplechaser was my teammate in Hwa Chong Institution. He used to believe he could make the 2005 SEA games. He didn't, what happened along the way I don't know, but eventually he went full psycho in shooting down all the distance runners who happen to stand out in Singapore.
Please go on with your lives, and let him continue typing this crap from his mum's basement.
As for guys like "R", you can continue slagging off and setting limits on other runners all you want. It says a lot more about your own bitter/jealous character than it does about them. And it's embarassing that some of our own singaporeans like you choose to shoot down our own sportsmen's ambitions rather than support them. Last I checked, a marathon is 42.195km, not 10km or 21.1km. So 42.195km is the distance I'm training for."
" "LT"--- realistic goals and work towards them gradually? so are you saying Rui Yong all these years putting in his hardwork during his RI/RJC track/xcountry days are non-realistic? He did work hard too like any other young talents out there in SG. Let's say he started off 5 years ago then we might be able to imply he is unrealistic. But in this case? No. To me you're just here to pin him down indirectly, I'm here to speak upfront to you. The things you promised people and not delivered in the past , owes people money and not paid up. Alot of people are aware of what's going on and also chose not to talk about it. So do you wanna make it into a discussion like Joe KS do? Tell me about it.
Forgot to mention if we see F1 top runners , are not trained from scratch by you. sorry to say that , that's a fact i guess"
Forgot to mention if we see F1 top runners , are not trained from scratch by you. sorry to say that , that's a fact i guess"
Dear Soh Rui Yong, I have waited
for some time to allow some dust to settle before I give you a final word here
in the presence of the president of SA Mr Tang, Head of Long distance Ghana
Segaran, your mentor James Wong Tuck Yim, and reputable coaches Joe Goh and Bay
Hansen. I apologize to you guys for my long overdue reply. My apologies also to
the 3 estimated British gentlemen Ben Pickford, Jon Cheal and Stuart Haynes,
for the cryptic and unseemly behavior of my fellow countryman Soh Rui Yong who had tagged you
people looking to get a reply in one of my facebook posts. My silence on this
matter has officially ended, and on behalf of his childish and obnoxious
misdemeanors on social media and/or in real-life, I sincerely apologize.
Ruiyong, I hope you do not get yourself into serious trouble
shooting down what is innocent bystanders like this chap you are talking about
here, just because he happened to be one of your critics as well. NOBODY IS HIM
EXCEPT HIM, please stop all your tactical name-shaming and superficial
blame-game, because we know you are using these as a tablecloth to hide every
of your moral, ethical and professional culpabilities--faults and weaknesses,
so as to also conveniently dissuade anyone else in the future in Singapore from
discussing and/or exposing serious issues of principle in your overall personal
and sports conduct.
If this chap you speak of---"MG", means so much to you
that you have to honor him time and again everywhere on facebook, he probably
must have been kind enough to also point out all that is wrong with your
personal/social-media grooming and the overall conduct of your sports career,
otherwise why would you be so ever compelled to unconsciously hand him dignity
as such?!!
One final time my dear friend, in case it didn’t register in
your mind---->>Please do not allow your weird and sickly preoccupation
with this chap of yours distract from the issues at hand that I have presented
in all my blogposts---namely, your very unrealistic distance targets, your slow
pbs at the 5k, 10k and HM compared to what is required to run 2:18:xx, your
obnoxious and egotistical bragging and subsequently justifying these things as
excusable as long as you seem to be doing the country proud?! Time and again,
we are shocked and incoherent at how basic humility and teachability can so
easily elude such a finely educated lad like yourself?! Ask any of the
reasonable and knowledgeable officials and coaches around Singapore yourself,
and even Ben, Jon and Stuart(assuming they can remain impartial!), and see if
more than a couple have rave reviews about your overall conduct in terms of
basic professional ethics and morals in the past 6-9 months.
Why do you make it seem like I and my team are in need of
supporters, or in need of public recognition as perhaps those at a TV awards
ceremony? Our lives and identities are big and strong enough to have no need of
such support in morale. FYI-----some of us are flying corporate/military
executives, humble and highly experienced specialist distance coaches, and also
important stewards of young lives, and combined with the persistence, rigor and
passion of our written analysis and arguments, don’t you think we serve a
higher purpose or calling than simply trying to boost local morale figures, or
worst, try to seem to oppress everybody into buying and possessing only our
views about you and your career. But that is ironically what you are trying to
achieve with all your tactical name-shame and dishonor. You try so hard to
render invalid every of those people who dares to criticize or stand up to your
views and actions, but not knowing that in doing so you might have implicitly
or explicitly rendered yourself one, because a real solid professional athlete
with solid ethics and morals will let their legs do the talking, every single
time.
At the very least, learn to respect people's name, and not
call it a joke(s), and learn to respect people's decision(in this case mine)
not to reveal more details about myself and my team in the sense that we are
whistleblowers trying to achieve the full range of good effects with our
knowledge and experience. We speak, and have always spoken with the conviction
of faith in all the knowledge and experience that we have.
As a scholar, the very least you can do, and we are
suggesting as well, is to respect the views, ideas, and opinions of both your
critics and your supporters. Welcome them with open arms. Try not to give yourself
to paranoia. See the benevolence in others, more than you will tend to see only
the malevolence! This one is hard to do, but trust me, it is matter of how much
you really want it! Just as you want so much to run 2:18:xx, why can’t you
apply yourself similarly and want as much, if not more, to see the benevolence
in and of others? Do you think the people whom you perhaps try to despise and
invalidate, like "MG", "R" and "LT", are so devoid of
sense(psychotic and/or neurotic) and of reason(presposterous) as to render a part
of themselves to see that you do not have a premature or less than fulfilling
end to your distance career? Do you
honestly think that way Soh Ruiyong? We are not either, by this statement insinuating
that your coach Ian Dobson doesn’t know what he is talking about when he says
he thinks you have what it takes to run 2:18:xx if you turned full-time
professional. We are definitely able to critically and objectively appraise his
view with statistical and analytical methods from science and math and reserve
a judgement for the time being, because we know full well in the reliability of
rigorously assessed and supported trends and models in distance running
achievement and performance. Even if distance sport is part art and part
science, the part art is still quantifiable, and therefore statistically and
scientifically liable! Does that make any sense at all?
So please, as a scholar, stop behaving in a rogue and
uncultivated manner online. Young starlets are looking around looking for a
model to mimic, and the last thing we need is for such behaviors---ethics and
morals to go on air. We live in a democratic society, we thrive in a diversity
of views and constant dialogue, of which I have painstakingly tried to set up
here the whole time, but always got summarily dismissed as a psycho by one of a dictator like you. Instead of denigrating these critics of yours in the
manner in which you are doing so, I hereby would like to enliven the courage,
dare-devil, and brutal transparency of these 3 vilified lads: "MG", "R", "LT", as well a few more well-meaning whistleblowers whose
identities I will so far find no need to spare a mention.
Yours sincerely
*Some names are now initialed to protect the identities of some whistleblowers
*Some names are now initialed to protect the identities of some whistleblowers
You, Mark Gan Zhi Wei, are truly a psycho. Please leave Soh Rui Yong alone, it is clear you have an unhealthy obsession with him. He has achieved much as a runner, and you have achieved nothing by trolling runners on Facebook with your fake Joe KS account.
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