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If you love sport, you better watch Rising Phoenix

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When the country's most distinguished Paralympian texts you at 11.21pm on a Friday night and insists that you watch a new Netflix documentary, you listen, you put it on and then you thank her.

Yesterday, swimmer Yip Pin Xiu explained that when she finished watching Rising Phoenix, a rousing documentary on the Paralympics which left her in tears, there was only one thing to do. Send out texts to people: Watch it.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on September 01, 2020, with the headline If you love sport, you better watch Rising Phoenix. Subscribe