SINGAPORE, Sept 16 — Singapore’s former Olympic champion Joseph Schooling will soon start national service after deferring it for years, officials said today, following the swimmer’s disappointing performance in Tokyo.But the city-state’s first Olympic champion relinquished his title after failing to qualify in the same event at this year’s virus-delayed Tokyo Games.
Schooling and Quah Zheng Wen, another swimmer who represented Singapore in the 2016 and 2020 Olympics, will be enlisted for national service as their deferments ended on August 31, the Ministry of Defence said in a statement today. Schooling, 26, has deferred national service for seven years. He will be enlisted once necessary procedures have been completed, the ministry added.
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