A moment of levity turned sentimental at the Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo yesterday morning. Chantal Liew, barely out of the water and still in her wetsuit, with a red Team Singapore jacket draped over her shoulders, had just crossed the finish line in the marathon swimming...
"They can kiss my a**," Liew said with a laugh, before her voice began to crack.
"It's tough what we do. Athletes don't want to perform badly, we all want to come here and perform our best. So I'm happy that I did what I did today. I can say the same, with confidence, for every other athlete that's here in Tokyo right now."Sometimes your best is not good enough, sometimes it is... but you live and you learn, and at the end of the day, I love what I do... and no one can take that away from us.
This bore fruit with her performance in Tokyo, where the Japanese summer has taken its toll on many visiting athletes. She timed 2:21:30 at the Kuala Lumpur Games and clocked 2:12:20 at the recent Fina Olympic marathon swim qualifiers in June in Portugal.
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