You have to give them credit. Since Yip Pin Xiu won the gold
medal in the S2 100m backstroke at the Rio Paralympic 2016, the Singapore media
has been trying to push up the achievement and get Singaporeans excited over
it.
Unfortunately, Singaporeans are just not biting. In a way,
that’s not really surprising. The Paralympic swimmer had won Paralympic gold before.
Yip won a gold medal in the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, yet most Singaporeans had
already forgotten about it. In fact, Yip was considered one of the favorites in
her event but her win came as a surprise to most Singaporeans.
On sheer gold medal count, Yip has Joseph Schooling beat but
as a Paralympic athlete, she’ll never be as famous as Schooling. Is it fair?
Hell no, but that’s just the way it is. No matter how hard the Singapore media try,
that’s the way it’s going to be.
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