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SEA Games: Train, eat, sleep, win is all Vietnam swim queen Nguyen Thi Anh Vien knows
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Vietnam's Nguyen Thi Anh Vien after winning the gold in the Women's 200m Freestyle Final event of the 2019 SEA Games in Capas, Philippines, on Dec 6, 2019.
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CLARK - Such is Vietnam swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien's dogged focus on her career that she does not have a mobile phone or a Facebook account, despite earning billions of dong in prize money and sponsorships.
The 23-year-old, nicknamed the Little Mermaid, admitted that her days consist only of "training, eating, sleeping and training again", but she is happy to forsake a regular life for her sport.
