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Gymnastics: Pain of regret drives Tan Sze En to Olympic Games
Tokyo 2020-bound gymnast once thought of giving up but has found renewed motivation
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Tan Sze En, 19, at the Singapore Sport Institute gym, where she usually trains for strength and conditioning. She is less worried over physical pain than regretting if she gave up.
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Nicole Chia
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Tan Sze En understands the frustration of being an injured athlete only too well. She fractured her left ankle in 2017, tore her rotator cuff a year later and a lateral collateral ligament strain in her left knee forced her out of last month's SEA Games.
It is no wonder the national gymnast has toyed with quitting the sport several times through the years, but what she really dreads is something beyond physical pain.
