The latest fiasco to rock our little red dot: Lee Bee Wah's shock sacking of table tennis team manager Antony Lee.

The decision comes about a week behind Singapore's first Olympic medal after almost five decades, barely a day after a coachless Gao Ning crashed out of the Games in 24 minutes to a relative nobody, and just before a jubilant Team Singapore returns home.

MP Lee Bee Wah, who is also president of the Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA), had already taken an unforgiving stance early on. She said: "We cannot accept such things happening in such an important tournament," referring to the Gao Ning incident.

But no one expected the guillotine to fall so soon on Antony Lee, with Head Coach Liu Guodong also on the chopping board. With no proper inquiry conducted and no official reason given except that it being best for the STTA chief's "new team" to choose their manager, due process is conspicuously absent in the swift dismissal.

Further raising eyebrows: Ms Lee's inexperienced but heavy hand after only a month at the helm of STTA, and her denial that the Gao Ning incident had anything to do with the team boss' sacking, who apparently was due to go in a decision made before the Olympics.

When asked to comment, Singapore National Olympic Council president Teo Chee Hean said: "I assume that she has the facts of the situation to make the decision that she did."

Well, we know what assuming makes out of you and me.