Singapore’s Shanti Pereira of Singapore celebrates winning the women’s 200m final athletics event during the 19th Asian Games at Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre on Oct. 2, 2023.
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She is now setting her eyes on the Paris Olympics in July, and training hard in the U.S. for it.
But coming so far did not come without numerous knockdowns.
Pereira told CNBC that one of the “hardest parts” of her career was when she suffered a hamstring injury in 2018 that derailed her training. As a result, she could not progress beyond the Asian Games heats that year.
That resulted…
