Yip Pin Xiu and her Paralympics teammates can’t wait for bus parade on Sept 14

Team Singapore’s Jeralyn Tan (right) with her competition partner and coach Yunita Omar. PHOTO: GOH SI WEI/SNPC

SINGAPORE – When swimmer Sophie Soon returned to Singapore from the Tokyo Paralympics in 2021, she was swiftly hustled into a van to start her mandatory two-week quarantine, which was in line with Covid-19 measures at the time.

On Sept 10, there was no sanitised hotel room waiting.

Instead, she and nine other Team Singapore athletes were able to bask in a warm welcome at Changi Airport.

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