At the age of 14, I left home to pursue my career as a national diver to achieve my goals in making my family proud and bringing honour to my country, Malaysia. It is not an easy journey to be honest. With a tight schedule everyday and far from home, I need to learn to be independent myself.
As I gradually improve in diving, I surprised myself when I qualified for my first Olympic Games in Beijing 🇨🇳 at the age of 15. Since then, I forced myself to think wiser than my age and set long term goals to compete in more Olympics.
Fast forward to 2012 London 🇬🇧 Olympic Games, my physical and mental were tested, but in the end I won my first ever Olympic medal🥉.
4 years later in Rio 🇧🇷 Olympics, the expectations were definitely higher this time but I came back home with a silver.🥈
There’s only a few more days before we welcome a new year, here I am asking that you can pray for my good health and keep supporting my journey towards 2020 Tokyo 🇯🇵 Olympics.
If you want to know what happened in between 2008 till now, and my new year resolutions, we can chat about it in my IG Live #LelaTalks this coming 28th December at 11am. Don’t forget okay?😁 📸 @olympics AFP Health Service Command
