The 26-year-old gets candid about an injury that she described as “one of the hardest things” she experienced in the new episode of R U Okay? with Class 95 DJ Jean Danker.
, Shanti shares more about why “2018, right up to early 2022” was a really tough period for her, and how she picked herself up from there.
“I kind of realised that it’s not just me that has bad days, it’s all of us. It sucks to see, but it happens to everyone, and there’s really nothing much you can do about what’s happened in the past,” she said. “I was on the Sports Excellence Scholarship since 2016, but my goal for that scholarship was to potentially medal at that Asian Games in 2018,” she said, adding that there was just not enough time for her to prepare and get herself back into tip-top condition for the games.
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