Yeah you miss yet another invaluable opportunity to hold your tongue. It's obvious though you have an inferiority complex but I suppose it's fully justified. I mean how many of us have delusions of adequacy?

Oh and I can't admire a self made man who worships his creator...

Cambodian Olympians quietly depart for Beijing

my feeling is that it's already difficult enough for these Cambodian athletes to train in harsh conditions yet know that they won't come close to winning, let alone face criticisms from their fellow khmer.

they have the determination to put their pride to the test for their country.  the least we can do for them is offer them moral and emotional support. 

The Cambodian Olympic delegation consists of 18 people, 4 athletes and 14 officials.

Their participation is totally financed by the IOC (International Olympic Committee).

According to some reports, for their participation, the Cambodian National Olympic Committees, Athletic Associations/Organizations have decided to share the IOC’s funding as follows.

$400 for each athlete

$7000 for each official

One official decided to donate $200 to each athlete, bringing each athlete’s share to $600.

I love those officials.  2 years ago there was a guy that was trying to recruit khmer from abroad that would like to participate in the ASEAN Game in the Philliphine.  It took me many tries until I got a hold of one official.  The moment as he heard me asking him about how they fund the athletes he told me that he will get back to me.  I never heard back from him. 

It is a shame because I'm sure there are some good Khmer athletes out there, such as boxing and even volleyball players that are not available due to the greedy Olympic Committee.  This is the fact and this is the current reality of how things are in srok Khmer.  I think Cambodia need a private fund, non-corrupt organization with the goal to train athletes for the national pride.

China spend billions on this Olympic and the world spend million on their athletes.  Khmer stole thousand from their athletes.  They should put those official in the game....boxing or karate....so they can get their ass kicked in.

with the info below and your opinions earlier, are you trying to conclude that cambodia should not participate at all????

 Neak Neang Pukeko,

 Maybe that’s what you think I was trying to say.

 KSaron understood what I was trying to say.

 I think you meant “Khmers in a position of power”.

 This is just another instance of daylight robbery that is a feature of Cambodia.

 That’s what Sam Rainsy meant by “thieves of the nation” who have stolen billions in foreign aid, in all kinds of concessions (land, Angkor ticket sales, Sokha, OcheuTeal Beaches, Bokor, etc, etc), in State assets (timber, buildings). The list is endless.

 And almost 60% of the voters still voted for those “thieves of the nation”

Many overseas Khmers have been and will continue to send money to these voters.

http://www.khmerwitica.com/forum/posts/id_3007/

Talking about robbery, it’s not limited to politicians.

Parents, guardians, uncles and aunts, relatives, neighbors sell young girls (and boys) ‘virginity every day and keep most, if not ALL the money.

Steav boyfriends/pimps of prostitutes and bar girls sell their girl friends every single day.

In certain “high-class” hotels, night staff sell their wives to guests who enquire about “special room service”.

Exploiting and mistreating the weak, the poor, the defenseless is considered normal in Cambodia.

IMO, what he is pointing out is that Cambodian Officials are corrupted bastards like just the cambodian Government. they would pocket 90% of the money and give the 10% to the people/athlete. It's seems pretty clear.

 Thank you, Gnome.

 Actually, the officials pocketed 98.4 % of the money.

 The officials of the Cambodian National Olympic Committees, Athletic Associations/Organizations are CPP members and connected to the government (jobs for the boys).

 By Cambodian standards, these four athletes are perceived by most Cambodians to be lucky. They got the chance to wear nice uniforms, travel abroad, have free room and board for 16 days and earn $600.

 http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2008080821114/National-news/Going-for-gold-...-or-bronze.html

 Millions and millions of other Khmers are not so "lucky".

 The invisible face of poverty is hidden behind the signs of increasing prosperity in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and the cities and towns.

The July 27 election results show that almost 60% of voters believe that Cambodians should be grateful for the crumbs they have received from the CPP.

Likewise, in the eyes of the officials at Cambodian National Olympic Committee and many, many Cambodians, the four athletes should be grateful.

this is very bad politic in the country. I already mention this,50 dollars a month.How the heck they could support their family.  This country need to change that kbal machine...

Cambodia is lucky to have Christian Zepp as National Volleyball Team Coach.

He loves Cambodia, the Khmer people and is a really nice guy.

http://www.standupcambodia.net/blog/?p=1866#more-1866

At this point I had already made my decision to win the competition and donate the money to the CNVLD. But there was one young guy swimming as well and he was 9 hours ahead of me because he started to swim at 10am on Friday morning – while I was still working 200km away from home. So he had some 12km ahead of me. I went back to the swimming pool on Saturday night to swim another 10km, and that’s where I got into first place.

During the night I had spoken with the owner of the electronics shop to see if it would be possible to donate the money – it was quite hard to convince him but he said yes.

When the award ceremony started, the Mayor and local media were there and I took the chance of saying that I will donate the money completely to the CNVLD and what the CNVLD does with this money – and that’s when Mr Wüst from Radio Richter said, that he will raise the prize money on 600 EUROS. Everyone was happy and we had helped to raise awareness about the CNVLD, Cambodia and the landmine issue.

The CNVLD wishes to express its sincere gratitude to Christian Zepp, the Mayor and Citizens of Frechen and Radio Richter for Standing Up with the athletes with a disability of Cambodia.

and i also hope cambodia gets more fundings so more cambodians will be able to participate in the Olympics every year. the more participants the more chances of winning.  ...!! :)

if participation in the olympics is totally funded by the ioc wouldn't it follow that funding increases by the number of athletes participating?  

now if youre hoping cambodia's national olympic committee give more funds to their athletes and improve their olympic stadium then i concur.

The $7000 each Cambodian National Olympic Committee official awarded himself out of the IOC funding for vacationing in Beijing (and other parts of China) for two weeks is the equivalent of the annual salary of almost twenty athletes. In Beijing 2008, 14 officials went with 4 athletes. The combined allowance of the 14 officials could pay the salaries of almost 280 athletes for one year.

In contrast, almost all officials in the Cambodian National Volleyball League (Disabled), 90% of whom are foreigners, are volunteers and receive no salary.

http://www.standupcambodia.net/

Two years ago, when a few top players in the league were found guilty of accepting bribes to rig/fix games in order to favor bets, they were frozen out and threatened with expulsion if they offended again. They never did it again.

When Cambodia hosted the Word cup in November 2007, all volunteers ( e.g. sweepers who keep the court clean and dry during time-outs: ref. Current volleyball competition in Beijing 2008, ushers, etc) were almost all young overseas Cambodians and foreigners living in Cambodia, i.e. relatives and friends of the officials.

Cambodia came third, after losing narrowly to Germany.

IMO, Cambodians are not inherently corrupt. Their leaders set the example.

http://www.khmerwitica.com/forum/posts/id_3083/