SINGAPORE:  , Life as a bottom swimmer is frequently traveling.
Ryan Lo has been up home for no more than two weeks at a time over the past few years. Along the way, the 27- year- aged soldier has missed out on significant milestones, taken many gap years and lived out of suitcases.
Goals, you see, require commitment.
” This year was my first Chinese New Year ( back home ) in four, five years”, he told CNA in an interview last week.
” Some nephews or nieces I had n’t seen in a while, and they are now almost as tall or taller than me,” I thought.
Then older, wiser and faster,  , the , 27- yr- ancient is readying up for a minute Olympic Games plan. While Lo wants to fight for the awards, it is now about more than just that for Asia’s highest- ranked ILCA7 soldier.
” I’m trying to let my traveling bring pleasure to myself, but I also hope that my traveling can bring satisfaction to others as well,” Lo, who is 10th in the world positions, said.
CONFIDENTIAL AFTER LEADING
At the age of 7, Lo began sailing. By the time he was in Primary 4, he was already representing Singapore in overseas competitions , in the Optimist class, where , a smaller sailing dinghy is used by children.
His sister Man Yi, who won gold in the Laser Radial event at the 2005 SEA Games, and Lo’s half- brother Jun Hao, who took silver at the 2007 SEA Games, served as inspiration that Lo , could one day compete at the top , level.
As a 13- year- old, Lo clinched bronze for Singapore at the 2010 Asian Games. Eight years later, he claimed another Asiad bronze, this time in the laser event ( now ILCA7 ).
The Singaporean made his Olympics debut , at the COVID- postponed Tokyo Games in 2021 where he finished 21st out of 35 sailors.