Hong Kong Olympic swimmer Siobhan Haughey shares all about Tokyo 2020, her Olympics tattoo and little-known facts about her
Olympic swimmer and Gen.T honouree Siobhan Bernadette Haughey, who won Olympic silver for Hong Kong at the Women's 200m freestyle in Tokyo, sat down with Tatler Asia before her race to talk all about her training, surprising facts, life as a Eurasian female athlete from Hong Kong, and everything in between.
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What was it like growing up in Hong Kong as a Eurasian in a local school?
I learnt to speak Cantonese when I was a baby, I watched the same TV shows, and read the same Chinese books as my classmates, so I never saw myself as being “different” in a local school. Sometimes I did struggle with Chinese a little bit, or realised that my family doesn’t follow certain Chinese traditions that my friends’ families would, but for the most part I think I’m pretty similar to my friends in school.