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Singapore's Joseph Schooling said he was happy to silence critics who dubbed him "foreign" after he set out his store for the world championships with nine SEA Games gold medals.
Schooling once attracted heavy fire in his home country as detractors assumed he was one of the "foreign talent" used to bolster the tiny city-state's sporting stocks.
Matters came to a head at last year's Asian Games, when his Singapore-born father recorded a video message to hammer home that Joseph was a "true son" of the country.
But sniping was replaced by adoration at the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Singapore, where poster-boy Schooling starred with some devastating performances in the pool.
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