SINGAPORE - When Ms Eileen Chai was four, her mother showed her videos of Romanian Olympian gymnast Nadia Comaneci.
It piqued her interest so much that she took up classes in the sport. At seven, she became the youngest athlete to qualify for the 1985 Southeast Asian Games.
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