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SIM WINS MORE BY CARING LESS
The Straits Times
|March 07, 2026
Q If 2025 were a chapter in a book, what would its title be and why?
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Sim won all her five events at the 2025 SEA Games in Thailand in December in Games record times. ST PHOTO: GAVIN FOO
(ST PHOTO: GAVIN FOO)
A I would name it For The Plot because for me, 2025 was a year of adventure and doing things for the fun of it, rather than thinking of things more logically.
Q When you're at your best, like when you won gold medals in SEA Games record times in all your five events at the 2025 edition, in the process becoming the first athlete to complete the breaststroke triple, what's different about you?
A When I am at my best, I don't overthink as much and have less expectations.
The most recent example was the last SEA Games because I truly had no expectations going into the meet about my performance. I was training in the United States, where we swim short-course yards and I take five to six strokes per length, which is significantly shorter than long-course metres, where I take about 20 strokes.
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