When he stepped onto the starting block at the OCBC Aquatic Centre, Mikkel Lee would break the nervous silence among his competitors with a deep grunt.
But that was not the only thing he broke yesterday; the Secondary 4 student from Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) rewrote two B Division records at the schools swimming championships.
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