What's with pop rice and politics?

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Here's the situation: I love pop rice! I grew up eating the golden ampao (poppy rice) for merienda, as well as the chicharon, pusit na maanghang, and all the kind of proto junk food that the sari-sari store retailed some two scores ago. So what's this I hear that one high falutin sport official had likened the Dragonboat Paddlers, recently hailed as World Champions, to the lowly masa food called ampao? Am I missing something? Well, I have yet to know the story why the Dragonboat Paddlers, a team composed of poor athletes, is not considered a national team nor official delegates to world events. Must be some crazy story, technical, legal, and political. Actually, I am not interested to hear any explanation from some high falutin sports official who cannot even distinguish pure muscle from pop rice. I am sure he cannot even paddle an oar with precision and velocity, so why listen to him? The Dragonboat Paddlers had worked their way tough and hard to become World Champions, and lest that official misconstrue the golden ampao from the five golds the paddlers brought home, he better put some in his mouth to know the difference!