Kaya...kaya...kaya... but poor for those athlete who is not able to give gold. Just lacking the opportunity to be exposed in international tournament. This trend been chronics, that is whay after the big wave, nothing follows. After Tony/Chandra nothing really spectacular, and probably after Natsir/Widianto nothing follow.
Good point.. Player will "defuse" after they accept so many incentives, not much motivation left for them to play on..
We are not socialists... INA badminton does not [and should not] practice socialism. The top winners get big monetary rewards. The non-winners have to figure out how to be top winners. Note that we got no significant government funds; PBSI is cash-strapped. Is it really motivating if spread the puny budgeted fund we have to the non-winners... Simulation: let's say the fund budget is only just that $5000 per category, should we allocate it into $2000 for the winner, $1000 for the finalist, and $500 for the semifinalist, and $125 for every quarterfinalist? I support the current practice of giving the $5000 [about Rp 50 million] for the winner or nothing. Simple, competitive, does not give any incentives for loosing. Maybe this is partially the reason INA got 2 World Champion pairs despite the lack of funds... We gotta do what we gotta do with our difficult financial situation...
The Minister of youth and sport also gave Rp 50 Millions to all INA's gold medalist plus Rp 25 for their coaches ( including Christian Hadinata beside Sigit Pamungkas and Richard Manaiky)
