Joseph Schooling Does Singapore Proud!

[jetsetter]

How are our paddlers doing this morning against China? Hope they can get at least a bronze. A bit hard to beat China in this morning's semis.


Jiayou Women's Table Tennis!!! :rahrah:

[jetsetter]

janet88:

our hero will only be back for a few days before returning to his training...hope the media gives him time to enjoy the time spent at home with his parents instead of raining interviews on him.

Yah, he was so obliging...spent 1.5h at Changi Airport. So many school children woke up early to wait for him.

Seems like he is going around to take wefies with his neighbours in Marine Parade. So tiring after a long flight from Rio.

[janet88]

jetsetter:

janet88:

our hero will only be back for a few days before returning to his training...hope the media gives him time to enjoy the time spent at home with his parents instead of raining interviews on him.

Yah, he was so obliging...spent 1.5h at Changi Airport. So many school children woke up early to wait for him.

Seems like he is going around to take wefies with his neighbours in Marine Parade. So tiring after a long flight from Rio.

touched down early in the morning to swarms of reporters. then later to parliament house to meet the PM. it will be nice to stretch out on the bed for a good sleep.

[jetsetter]

Aside...I'll miss Michael Phelps :please:


I'm not sure if László Cseh (30) is retiring like Phelps (31), but Schooling will definitely still face his rival, Chad le Clos who is only 24yo! le Clos beat Schooling in the 100m fly finals in the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

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jetsetter:

Ng En Hen on NS deferment:


http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/ng-eng-hen-schooling-can-continue-ns-deferment-if-he-continues-to-meet-conditions

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[jetsetter]

Imp75:

Being a sports parent, I have seen how exorbitant the cost is to raise a sports child.

Not just the costs to go to Bolles School (and now U of Texas, Austin). Time, energy, tears too.

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Once you send your kid overseas (esp USA) from high school onwards, it's gonna hit a mil. :moneyflies:

[phtthp]

now that Joseph had won a gold Olympic medal for Sg, he can come back, start a private swimming school for children, one day in future.

Am sure many kids will be keen to enrol, learn swimming under him.

[lynntan15]

phtthp:

now that Joseph had won a gold Olympic medal for Sg, he can come back, start a private swimming school for children, one day in future.

Am sure many kids will be keen to enrol, learn swimming under him.

Should put him in charge in training those kids @ swimming in Singapore Sport School. The next generation of Olympic swimmers. Born Locally, Trained Locally. World Class Swimming School.

[sharonkhoo]

phtthp:

now that Joseph had won a gold Olympic medal for Sg, he can come back, start a private swimming school for children, one day in future.

Am sure many kids will be keen to enrol, learn swimming under him.

A top competitor may not actually be the best teacher/coach. It really depends on his personality, and it's hard to tell from the media, especially when he is still so young.

I am very impressed that his parents have been so supportive. He is also very fortunate the they were able to afford it, and that he has no siblings. It would have been much more challenging if they had to consider the needs of other children as well. Now that he has won gold, everyone is very happy and saying that their sacrifices were worth it, but would these bystaners have said the same if he had not won a medal? What if he tried for more years and retired without winning a medal? I salute the parents of those sportsmen/women who have supported their kids in their efforts to achieve their dreams even if they didn't succeed.