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Point in time
Fencer Kiria Tikanah Abdul Rahman features in the third profile of The Straits Times' series on Team Singapore athletes at the Tokyo Games. Maturity and confidence, quietly cultivated, have changed fencer as she aims to take flight
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Somewhere along Bukit Timah Road, situated between a fast food drive-through and a busy traffic intersection is a quaint little shophouse unit that houses Blade Fencing Club.
It is unfussy, unassuming and, for the past decade, it has also represented the cocoon for Kiria Tikanah Abdul Rahman's metamorphosis.
