Cyclist Dinah Chan retires due to CFS

[Webdog]

31-year-old world class cyclist and triathalon athlete retires to become a teacher due to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Reading this story, I can't help but wonder if the "concussion" from a 2013 car crash might have played a role. That's when her CFS started. Or is that too obvious?

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Cycling to take a backseat, as SEA Games champion Dinah Chan retires
https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/cycling-take-backseat-sea-games-champion-dinah-chan-retires

Hers was a career marked by a number of firsts. She won Singapore’s first SEA Games cycling gold in 16 years at the 2013 SEA Games. Two years later she became the first national cyclist to be awarded the SpexScholarship

But her journey was also riddled with many challenges, including a comeback from injuries sustained in a car accident three months before the 2013 SEA Games. This was followed by a 2.5-year long battle with chronic fatigue syndrome that left her exhausted and ready to throw in the towel.

Ms Chan said that she made the decision to retire after last month’s Asian Cycling Championships. “I didn’t want to take the scholarship and not have any medals. I tried my very best, and I know I tried, so that’s good enough for me.”

But her progress came to a screeching halt soon after when she was hit by extreme fatigue which left her legs burning, and her body so exhausted that she had to go to bed at 8pm every night. However, she continued to train and compete through what was eventually diagnosed as chronic fatigue syndrome.

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[MErmaid]

31-year-old world class cyclist and triathalon athlete retires to become a teacher due to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Reading this story, I can't help but wonder if the "concussion" from a 2013 car crash might have played a role. That's when her CFS started. Or is that too obvious?

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Cycling to take a backseat, as SEA Games champion Dinah Chan retires
https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/cycling-take-backseat-sea-games-champion-dinah-chan-retires






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Way too obvious, except for the auto and health insurance industries whose quarterly profits are at stake. They rely on the misled medical industry to tell the patient that it’s “all in their head”. Which it’s true, it is “all in their head”, but the lazy, poorly trained, overscheduled, tightly $budgeted medical providers have already sold their soul. So what’s another wrong Dx and wrong Tx? It’s just business as usual.

“Now, send in the next patient.”