Name: Joseph Schooling - The Michael Phelps Fan Who Beat Him at the Olympics | Game Breakers
Uploaded: 2018-04-14T11:18:01.000Z
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Singapore isn't known 
 for being a sporting nation

and a lot of people said 
 we'll never win

Everyone knows the Olympics 
 is the biggest thing.

This young man, 
 he has a very strong sense

He's been so impressive, 
 and now he finds himself

..that was probably 
 the biggest moment in my life.

(GOLD MEDAL 100M BUTTERFLY 
 DOB - 16 JUNE 1995)

Growing up in Singapore, 
 I used to live

I had my first competition 
 when I was four

I didn't know what 
 that meant at that point.

You see all these parents 
 going nuts. It's kind of funny.

And from a young age, 
 had that feeling,

and 4:30 in the morning, 
 he woke me up.

at 4:30 in the morning, 
 that is special.

Every meet that he 
 swam was documented.

You could see a pattern, 
 how he was advancing.

he had to achieve, 
 target that I put him

the school records, 
 his PBs, and his goal.

(CONVINCED THE GOVERNMENT TO 
 GRANT JOSEPH)

(AN UNPRECEDENTED DEFERMENT OF 
 THE TWO-YEAR MILITARY SERVICE)

(HIS ATHLETIC DEVELOPMENT 
 UNINTERRUPTED.)

Singapore, because it's 
 a young nation,

they were concentrating 
 on building the country.

My dad hosted the 
 US Olympic team in 2008.

Before they went to Beijing, 
 they stopped over in Singapore.

in Jacksonville, Florida, 
 under Sergio Lopez.

It was definitely a little 
 intimidating,

That was the first time 
 I'd been to the US,

But for a 13-year-old kid, 
 I was in boarding school.

I was a little spoiled in 
 Singapore as a kid.

never had to do dishes, 
 laundry, that kind of things.

Not every parent can afford 
 this kind of thing.

But that's my choice, 
 it was nobody else's choice.

I don't want to be the richest 
 man in the cemetery.

Always I ask him, "So, you want 
 to come back?" "No."

He might cry, he might whine, 
 but, "No, Mom.

"If I come back, I'm not going 
 to get to the Olympics."

I wanted to be top eight 
 and I thought I could,

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