Swimming: ACS(I)'s perfect IB scorer Gan heads to US in bid to ace 2024 Olympics test

National 1,500m freestyle swimming record holder Gan Ching Hwee at the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Centre at Indiana University. PHOTO: COURTESY OF GAN CHING HWEE
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SINGAPORE - Gan Ching Hwee's Monday (Jan 3) could not have ended more perfectly. The 18-year-old, halfway around the world in Indiana in the United States, had stayed up past midnight to receive her International Baccalaureate results.

It was worth the wait.

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