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Singers and sportspersons share scores of similarities

Singapore swimmer Quah Jing Wen at the Taylor Swift concert in Singapore. PHOTO: QUAHJINGWEN/INSTAGRAM
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A wannabe footballer for Brentford FC will be found in Singapore this weekend in front of a microphone. The raspy-voiced Rod Stewart can still sing, but once he could play. In an ancient video from the 1980s, when he sits with a football on a field, an interviewer asks the rocker if he’s scared of injuring himself before a world tour.

Nope, he replies.

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