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Sixteen years, seven Paralympic golds, one exceptional champion
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Paralympic swimmer Yip Pin Xiu's record of five Olympics, seven gold medals and one silver is remarkable.
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Pearl divers, mermaids, pirates, submariners, wreck explorers, marine biologists. These are Yip Pin Xiu’s distant cousins. People of the land who are in their element in liquid.
“Water has shaped me,” says the Paralympic swimmer quietly from Paris.
