In Beijing

Singapore swimmer Yip Pin Xiu lowers herself from the wheelchair and into the water with swim team manager Danny Ong's help.
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Watched over by swim team manager Danny Ong, Pin Xiu positions her goggles with her permanently-clenched fingers before she lowers herself from the wheelchair, into the water.
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Pin Xiu flips into the water on her back once swim her team manager lets go of her wrists in the heats.
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Pin Xiu propels her way to a second world record in three days in the 50m backstroke (S3). She lopped 3 seconds off her world previous world record of 1:00.80 with a new time of 57.92, fininshing first among 10 swimmers.
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Singapore swim team manager Danny Ong holds swimmer Yip Pin Xiu as she gets back into her wheelchair after smashing her own world record in the 50m backstroke (S3) heats.
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Singapore swim team manager Danny Ong tells Pin Xiu to look up in the stands where her parents are after she smashed her own world record. Pin Xiu, 16, lets out a wide grin and waves with her permanently-clenched fingers shortly after.
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Singapore swimmer Theresa Goh looks up at the scoreboard to check out the timings of her opponents in the first of two heats for the 50m freestyle (S5) before surprising everyone but her coach by swimming her favoured breaststroke instead of the faster front crawl in her last race at these Games.
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Finishing second last among 14 swimmers, almost all of whom did the front crawl, Theresa did not qualify for the finals. Coach Ang Peng Siong had asked her to swim the breaststroke to help her regain her confidence and correct her technique after she was disappointed last Friday when she narrowly missed the bronze in her pet 100m breaststroke (SB4) event. She finished in 53.67 seconds, about 1 second short from the world record of 52.62 seconds she set during the 4th ASEAN Para Games held in January this year.
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