All or Nothing
When asked about what success and failure meant to her, four-time Olympian Leong Mun Yee hummed, and there was a contemplative silence that hung over the studio for a moment before she finally answered. “I think,” Mun Yee began carefully, “that right now, failure isn’t something I think about—it’s not the point, and it’s not what’s important. What matters is that I tried my best and that I’ve worked my hardest to get this far.”
A LEAP OF FAITH
In 1995, six young hopefuls were chosen from the Malaysian state of Perak to represent the country in the 1998 Commonwealth Games. But only one of them debuted, and that very debutante was 13-year-old Mun Yee herself. “I joined for fun at first,” she recalls, “but after competing in the Commonwealth Games, I felt burnt out and honestly didn’t feel like diving anymore at the time.”
Taking a break from the diving scene for half a year, Mun Yee returned to the fray
