HANOI - Former national swimmer Mark Chay returned from his first SEA Games in Jakarta in 1997 without a medal, but with a memory that still cracks him up even 25 years later.
"The fondest memory I had out of the pool was how Gary (Tan, now swimming's national head coach) and I were roommates with a bodybuilder," he said of their burly companion.
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