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Why play sport? Just look at the great education Danelle Tan is getting
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Singapore's Danelle Tan (in red), who has played in multiple clubs abroad, is trying to elevate her game.
ST PHOTO: ARIFFIN JAMAR
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What use is sport? Why defer your studies and waste the years? Why wake before the light to lose more than you win? Why choose a life of tin cups and inadequate earnings?
Most Singaporean athletes just shrug. They’ve heard a version of these whys. Sometimes they are questions with concern, sometimes they are just patronising. And maybe they’re just too tired after practice to explain the university they go to, the one of almost no off-days, where the field is the classroom, and tests come daily, and the marking is harsh, and the lessons are in character building (try losing in front of thousands of people).
