SMU alumna Yip Pin Xiu has a CV thick with accomplishment. She is going to her fourth Paralympics, has three swimming golds, sweats to knock milliseconds off her timings, has co-authored a book, is in the Singapore Women's Hall of Fame, has modelled for cosmetics, was a Nominated Member of Parliament and owns a smile that can light up a small city, despite having the Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. When asked why people should watch these Games, Pin Xiu said, "If you don't see something, you don't understand it. How competitive it is, how able people can be. When you see someone with a disability and you don't know them, you only look at their disability. But at a Games you can see them push limits. The disability is not limiting in the way people think it is." The Games, she said, "help people look past the disability". SMU alumna and archer Nur Syahidah Alim, who will also be competing at the Paralympics, has built up endurance by doing exercises in the environment chamber (34 deg C) turned up. Tokyo’s heat, in every way, will be testing.