CHOW Mei Hsia used to be shy to meet people or go out when she was a teenager – simply because she’s paralysed from the waist down due to a spinal condition. Thankfully for Mei Hsia, sports came to her rescue. I don’t give my handicap another thought now,” said Mei Hsia, who started out in wheelchair racing in 1998 and raced for about for five years. Mei Hsia, however, continued to be involved in wheelchair racing on weekends. “Wheelchair racing was out of the question because of my job,” said Mei Hsia, who works as a quality controller in a factory in Kepong.

Source: The Star November 05, 2017 22:30 UTC