"This deeply depressed me, and I decided to give up athletics," Tsai explains. After seeing an international meet, he began to think that his body was unexceptional and his skills inferior. By further taking into account the limited athletic resources in the R.O.C., he decided that in the next few years he had no way of achieving success.
「這讓我深受刺激，決定放棄體育」，蔡榮斌解釋，見識過國際性比賽後，他自忖身材既無優勢，技巧又遜色太多，加上國內體育資源普遍不豐，幾年之內絕不可能闖出名堂。