Swimming: Schooling out of Singapore’s SEA Games team, first time since 2011


Joseph Schooling's withdrawal from the SEA Games again raises the retirement question after a glittering career. - ST FILE

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): For the first time since his 2011 debut, Joseph Schooling will not represent Singapore at the biennial SEA Games.

The Republic’s only Olympic champion had qualified for the men’s 100m butterfly and was eligible for the men’s 4x100m medley team. But he was missing from the Singapore Swimming Association’s (SSA) list, released on Wednesday (March 1), of 22 athletes bound for Phnom Penh. The Games will be held from May 5-17.

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