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A fast, honest runner offers a valuable truth: It’s hard to be brave
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Goh Chui Ling prayed for bravery and found it during her 1,500m run at the SEA Games in 2023.
ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
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There is a long sporting road down which dreams are chased on tiring legs. It’s a mean road and a rewarding one. It’s where excellence may be found but failure definitely will. It asks for everything and guarantees nothing. It is a road which looks open but is rife with psychological walls. It demands penance and insists on devotion.
And it can’t ever be run without bravery.
