When Feng Tianwei scooped bronze in the women’s table tennis in London last week, it was Singapore’s first individual Olympic medal in 52 years.
Yet amid the outpouring of pride in the city-state of 5.2m, a jarring note of resentment has surfaced.
Comments on social media sites were quick to point out that Ms Feng was born in mainland China and did not get Singapore citizenship until 2008. Meanwhile, 77 per cent of respondents in an online poll by Yahoo Singapore said they were “not proud” of a “foreign import” winning an Olympic medal.
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