Photos for "The pain behind Joseph's glory"

Schooling waving the Singapore flag at the Munhak Park Tae Hwan Aquatics Centre on Sept 26, 2014. He won three medals at the Asian Games, including Singapore's first men's swimming gold medal since 1982.ST FILE PHOTO


Schooling composes and psyches himself prior to training at the University of Texas at Austin. During his early years in the United States, the young swimmer found it really hard. He said: "I was homesick all the time. I would call and say I want to come home." But he slowly got used to life there and eventually blossomed into a star.ST PHOTO: SANJAY NAIR



Schooling's natural affinity in the pool was evident from a young age. Close friend and national swimmer Teo Zhen Ren recalled how, even as a nine-year-old, Schooling was always the favourite whenever he raced and was beating boys older than him in almost every stroke.PHOTO: WILLY FOO




In 2009, he smashed Singapore's oldest junior record, the U-14 200m butterfly, with a time of 2min 10.56sec.ST FILE PHOTO

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