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When does talent bloom? Lessons from sprinter Shanti Pereira’s revival
In the world of sports, there is never a set season for talent to flower.
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Sprinter Shanti Pereira with her coach Luis Cunha after she became the first Singaporean woman to go under 23sec in the 200m, on April 2.
PHOTO: LUIS CUNHA
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A sprinter’s life is lived to a repetitive soundtrack. Tick, tick, tick. Human against clock. Feet versus time. They toil and grind and sweat because their life is devoted to a singular idea: Finding shards of a second. Flickers of time.
Like 0.01 of a second, says Shanti Pereira.
