Anywhere in Singapore, any mention of para sport and swimmer Yip Pin Xiu’s name will inevitably come up. The 32-year-old, whose burgeoning trophy cabinet includes five Paralympic gold medals, is easily one of the country’s most recognisable...
Five-gold Paralympic champion Yip Pin Xiu will be looking to retain her 50m and 100m backstroke S2 titles at the Paris Paralympics .
“Winning a medal and breaking the world record – It’s like the one big defining moment that showed that, at that point in time, I was older than I was in Beijing and I managed to swim faster than I ever did. It broke my own perception and my own boundaries of what I thought I could do.” “After my last competition in France, wasn’t what I expected, so at the end of the trip, I was crying in the changing room.”
“But everybody handles it very differently, whether you are in touch with your emotions or not, get angry and just compress it down.”
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