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Letitia Sim has rebounded from her disappointment at the Asian Games to set personal bests in the 50, 100m and 200m breaststroke.

Letitia Sim has rebounded from her disappointment at the Asian Games to set personal bests in the 50, 100m and 200m breaststroke.

PHOTO: LIANHE ZAOBAO

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In September, she wept. In January, she smiles. Sport is crazy, isn’t it, in its power to heal and change life in the flicker of a racing second. And that’s how Letitia Sim lives, doesn’t she, according to what the clock says?

And these days it says the breaststroke specialist is fast.

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