When Raoul Sharma landed in Cambodia on May 1, the 19-year-old member of Singapore men’s cricket squad was hoping to win medals at the SEA Games. And he did make the country proud when his team won the sixes tournament in Phnom Penh on Monday. But little did he...
When Raoul Sharma landed in Cambodia on May 1, the 19-year-old member of Singapore men’s cricket squad was hoping to win medals at the SEA Games.But little did he know that he would also be winning the hearts of many Cambodian SEA Games volunteers during his stay.
In a video that has gone viral on TikTok, a female Games volunteer is seen running up to Sharma when he leaves the team tent. She asks to have a photograph taken with him and he obliges, before several other volunteers follow suit. One of them even gives the slightly bemused athlete a hug. Sharma, who has returned to Singapore, told The Straits Times: “I had no idea what was going on. I just stepped out of my team tent to go to the toilet when one of the volunteers ran up to ask me to take a picture with them.”
He added that he posed with around 20 to 30 Cambodian volunteers, who were “very forthcoming, kind and friendly”.
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