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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nai_silva" data-source="post: 20548398" data-attributes="member: 555296">Who’s  your hero? In 2008, 13 year old Joseph Schooling got to meet his hero,  Michael Phelps, when the Olympian visited Singapore prior to the Beijing  Olympics. Today, 8 years later, Joseph just made history by beating  Michael to Gold in the 100m Butterfly finals - the first Singaporean to  ever make (let alone win) an Olympic swimming final.  After meeting his hero as a young teenager, Joseph said “Michael Phelps may be my idol, but I just want to make my own career.”  He then became fully committed to his swimming and, 3 years later in  2011 Joseph beat Michael’s age-group (15-16 years) time over the 100  yards butterfly. At the time, Joseph said, "It's been a target of mine  and I'm really happy to do that. It is a huge boost… Hopefully, I can  get more of his records."  In 2012, at 17, he finally got his dream of swimming in the same race as Michael, saying it was "a tick off on my bucket list.”  That was the year Joseph first qualified for the Olympics in London,  but then disaster struck when he was told his goggles weren’t olympic  standard just before the race. He rushed to get replacements, but ended  up getting a poor time in his heats and didn’t get through to the  semi-finals. It was Michael who was there to comfort him:  "I was walking behind Phelps after my race when he looked at me and asked, 'what's wrong?'  "I told him what happened and he hugged me and said, 'you're only so  young, you still have a long way to go. It's a learning experience so  keep your head high and just keep moving on'."  Again, it was  his hero who motivated Joseph on, and he thought: "I know that as I get  older, I'll become stronger, and I'll fare better beside him.”   Today, Joseph not only became stronger, but strong enough to win gold in  Rio, clocking a new Olympic record time in the 100m Butterly in 50.39  seconds.  Michael, who has already won 4 Gold Medals in Rio,  ended up in a 3-way dead heat for Silver with South Africa's Chad le  Clos and Laszlo Cseh of Hungary, three quarters of a second behind  Joseph. After Joseph’s win, Michael was the first to swim over and  congratulate him.  Who is your hero? Who inspires you so much  that you’re committed to do them the honor of committing to be even  better than they are? And then achieve it?  "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." ~ Isaac Newton   A big congratulations to Joseph Schooling on the Gold. And to Michael Phelps for the inspiration.  (More on Michael Phelp's extraordinary climb to the Rio Games here <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Ffrom-rock-bottom&h=yAQExmDs9&enc=AZMoYDUJLzVsSQu9xtzp15k5QAM1xWB0wCFzqxPowZ9RWvzLsLrIRtM90X26woekjvvTe3a_6qHhCminBDgSocTmQDJh8Gv1mKuyJ71Gc8zS658FN6eZPcMCSHk0EnpKqYnWI6lGcCtNPbqWvpxQGucNgfc3HXU5L8sVyNYGKq1zvEPvypA2Lj5HWLVRupa9e8E&s=1" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/from-rock-bottom</a>)  <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/olympics" target="_blank">#olympics</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/josephschooling" target="_blank">#josephschooling</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/michaelphelps" target="_blank">#michaelphelps</a> — in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Singapore/105565836144069?ref=stream" target="_blank">Singapore</a>.<img src="https://scontent-sit4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/13937808_10157147835550411_1849066682960588736_o.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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