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Swimmers racing in a car park? How can you not go and watch?
The World Aquatics Championships Arena was constructed in a car park in the Kallang. PHOTO: MARK CHEONG
'Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare.' Muhammad Ali said this and who'd dare argue with The Greatest? But impossible in sport isn't just a sublime feat, or a piece of revolutionary equipment. Sometimes it's just a building. Like this gigantic, temporary, blue box constructed on a car park filled with 3.9 million litres of water.
A piece of land in Kallang, where vehicles once stood stationary, is now a place where we will record movement in liquid during the World Aquatics Championships in July. Incredible? But then sport has always been a place of magic and imagination.
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