This boy has brought us to water and made us sip at the cup of possibility.
PARIS – Finally, there it is, glinting by the Mediterranean Sea. Finally, an Olympic medal sits on Max Maeder’s chest, this bronze orb, 455g in weight but whose heft is immeasurable. Finally, on the table which counts medals, SINGAPORE can be found. Sport is always more than a medal, but these metal spheres send a message. Hey world, Singapore can play, too.A boy who comes off the water in Marseille and is enveloped in a hug by his mother who can barely watch him compete.
At the 2023 Asian Games, the sailors were playing Mario Kart, a Nintendo game, and Max was getting, well, a beating. He took it politely but returned to his room, watched Mario Kart videos and read up on it. He is an interested boy and yet a hardy one. The 400m hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, who set a world record, said “a 1,000 per cent” she was nervous before her event. These are the Olympics, after all. And yet as the sun beat down like a fist on Marseille this week, and the lack of wind brought volatility and diluted the differences within the field, the boy did not shrink from challenge. On Wednesday, he said: “It wouldn’t be exciting if you weren’t nervous or anxious or tense.
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