Singapore swimmer Joseph Schooling. - The Star/ANN
SINGAPORE, Sept 16 (dpa): Singapore's 2016 Olympic champion Joseph Schooling is to swap his swimming goggles for night vision glasses after the city-state's Defence Ministry on Thursday said he would soon begin two years of compulsory national military service.
Schooling, 26, and Quah Zheng Wen, 24, a former Olympic swimming semi-finalist, "will proceed to fulfil their NS (national service) requirements, as they agreed to when they applied for deferment," the ministry announced.
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