No fairy tale finish for swordsmen


NO ONE gave them a chance, but the men’s foil team defied the odds to secure the silver medal.

The quartet of Hans Yoong Wei Shen, Tristan Cheng Xing Han, Chong Hong Li and Kaerlan Vinod Kamalanathan had less than three months of training prior to the Games.

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