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The things we don’t see in sport? The painful, uplifting struggle of practice

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In practice, Singapore's Gan Ching Hwee sometimes does 10 sets of 300m at full pace. The result: “If my legs could scream, they would.”

In practice, Singapore's Gan Ching Hwee sometimes does 10 sets of 300m at full pace. The result: “If my legs could scream, they would.”

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Before the lights shine and anthems are sung, before the flags and podiums, before applause and skill, before the cameras film and starting pistols fire, there’s this.

The repetitions, the vomit, the pain.

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