There was of course a lot of shock a lot of happiness a lot of pride because we all know that this is the first time that

Singapore gets to send athletes to games of course within the box there was a lot of you know proud I mean

members were proud box owners were very happy and also outside of the box I receive a lot of support from people I don't know, people

overseas via social media, and of course my family. This is episode number 122 with Ian Wee. Welcome to

pursuing health. I'm Julie Fushe family medicine resident and former

Cross-VFit Games athlete.

Here I bring to you information and inspiration from experts and everyday individuals

for how to use lifestyle to maximize health.

Thank you so much for joining me. Now let's get

started with this week's episode. Well hello there everybody and welcome

back to another episode of pursuing health. I'm very excited about this episode

because I'm going to be talking with a very special Cross Fit Games athlete.

Now leading into the 2009 Cross Fit Games one of the things that I was personally most excited

about was having the opportunity to see country champions who had previously never had any chance

to compete at the Cross with Games take the floor. You can

imagine my excitement when I found out just a few weeks before the games that

one of those country champions was a man from Singapore named Ian Wee who like

myself was competing in the cross-fit games while he was also going through

medical school. So I was hoping I'd have the opportunity to meet and catch up with him in Madison and

when I ran into him at a local affiliate and he agreed to sit down with me for an

episode of the podcast I was very very excited. A little bit about Ian, he is 25 years old. He is the fittest man in

Singapore and he earned a qualifying spot to the 2009 Cross Fit Games through

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