Ketin and Ximing share gold
One is fair, tall, bespectacled, speaks like a shotgun, the other is tanned, shorter, chooses his words carefully. -ST
Sun, Jul 05, 2009
The Straits Times
by Leonard Lim
On the surface, swimmers Wang Ximing and Ketin Nuttapong seem to have little in common. But nothing could separate the breaststrokers over 100 metres yesterday.
The 17-year-olds from China and Thailand respectively clocked an identical 1min 04.45sec on the third day of the Asian Youth Games swimming competition, winning joint-gold medals.
China's Ximing, who had a 0.43sec lead at the turn, said: 'I could see he was catching up near the end. So I'm happy to still get the gold. But it would have been nicer if I didn't need to share it.'
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