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She may have taken a six-month hiatus from competitive swimming but Singapore's first Paralympics medallist Yip Pin Xiu (pictured) is back with a bang.
The 17-year-old, who suffers from muscular dystrophy, won three golds at the March 28 (Disabled) National Swimming Championships and underlined her class by bettering the world mark for the 50-metre backstroke in the S3 category.
She touched home in 57.46 seconds for her pet event, shaving more than a second off her own record of 58.75sec, set in her last competitive appearance at the Beijing Paralympics last September.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
From The Straits Times in Singapore:
