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SINGAPORE : As the young athletes chase their Olympic dreams, nothing beats the thrill of doing this with their mothers watching and cheering them on.
And for one single mother, that journey to Singapore for the Youth Olympic Games was also a time to bond with her daughter.
Philippine swimmer Jasmine Alkaldi and her mother Susan Paler do what can now spend some quality time together, now that the swimming competition is over for Jasmine.
But the week before this was far from relaxed.
Besides the air ticket sponsored by consumer products company Proctor and Gamble to fly from the Philippines to Singapore, Susan also needed tickets to watch her daughter compete.
Tickets to such events, especially on the first day, were mostly sold out.
Susan Paler said: "Everyday, we will wait for our sponsor to give us our ticket. So we would have to wake up early and wait and when we got the ticket we got to rush to the competition. And then one day, our ticket arrived at 9:30am. When we arrived at our pool, the game was over."
That was a bad start, but Susan received tickets to the rest of the events that her 17-year-old daughter competed in.
And that included watching Jasmine's best effort - when she came in 6th in the semi-final of the 100-metre Girls' Freestyle.
- CNA/al
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