Serious More Crippled Sinkies Win Para-Olympic Gold! Should They Get Rewarded Like Sc

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Before this morning, Theresa Goh had been in nine Paralympic Games swimming finals but never won a medal.

The first ever Singaporean swimmer to qualify for the Paralympics when she made it to Athens 2004, the closest Goh came was a pair of fourth-placed finishes in Beijing in 2008.

But that all changed on Monday morning (Singapore time) when the 29-year-old swam the race of her life to clinch bronze in the 100-metre breaststroke SB4, clocking 1:55.55sec at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium in Rio de Janeiro to achieve her first ever Paralympics podium finish.

It is Singapore’s second medal in Brazil following team-mate Yip Pin Xiu’s gold two days earlier and one that Goh holds most dear amongst the plethora of accolades she has notched in 17 years of competitive swimming.
“It really means the world to me,” she told Yahoo Singapore from Brazil. “It means that everything has fallen into place and I've managed to achieve something that I wanted for a really long time.”

It was not an easy achievement either, as Goh was pushed hard over the final 25m by Zhang Li of China, who finished fourth. Norway’s world-record holder Sarah Louise Rung took gold, while Italian Giulia Ghiretti claimed silver.
Nervous and unsure

Goh, who was born with spina bifida and is paralysed from the waist down, admitted she was very nervous before the race even though she had set an Asian record of 1:54.50s in the heats.

“I had a lot of thoughts in my head,” she said. “But I just followed the game-plan, which was to follow the swimmer in front of me and to come back strong.

“I felt like I had a good swim. I didn’t know what place I was in [when I touched the wall], but I was excited to see the results.”

She also revealed that she had undergone a “roller-coaster of emotions” this year despite some excellent results, notably in May when she went below two minutes for the breaststroke for the first time in nine years at a meet in Portugal.

“At different moments this year, I've been sure and then unsure, and I've had a lot of times when I didn’t know I’d be able to get to the podium,” she said. “But at the end, it wasn’t really whether I believed I would podium – it was really focusing on what I had to do and not worrying about the outcome, I think that really helped me a lot.

“This year has been really amazing, a year I will never forget and that’s saying a lot because I have a really bad memory!”



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[johnn]

how is mr chee? ex navy..
he is a swimmer too.