During an interview with AFP, Singapore's first Gold medallist Joseph Issac Schooling In an interview with AFP, Singapore’s only Olympic gold medalist Joseph Schooling announced that he was contemplating a professional career in the USA and preferred to be based in the US where the training style and environment was more suited for him.
He added that it will be super hard for him to live in Singapore, train and perform.
Schooling said: "I'm going to finish my education up in UT (the University of Texas), get my diploma, and then we can talk about turning pro, that's the plan."
"I imagine it'll be super hard for me to live in Singapore and train and perform... I just think in the US, I'm more suited, or I'm more used to the US training style now, the environment and everything."
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