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Lennard Boleh
Lennard Lee, a medical student at Cambridge University, successfully swam non-stop across the 33.6kmwide English Channel in 9 hours and 45 minutes on Tuesday. Lennard, 20, has become the second Malaysian to achieve the feat after Datuk Abdul Malik Mydin, 29, from Penang, who made it in 17 hours and 35 minutes on Aug 3 last year. He raised £1,000 (RM7,000) and would split the money between the hospital and the university. “It is not about me, I want to help Christie because one in every three persons contract cancer,” he said.Malik Mydin was honored with a Datukship for the 17 hours swim inside a steel cage (for protection against shark).Will the Government also bestow a Datukship on Lennard for a far higher achievement - i.e. 9 hours & 45 minutes; without a steel cage protection, and expose to the sharks......? Meritocracy? or, ............ are we consistent? Is there a fair and just reward system for all, or only for a selected few?
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I was on the boat assisted Malik during the swim..Don't you know that he was monitored by the Channel Swimming & Piloting Federation in LOndon. The rules is no cage. He swam free in the open sea without any steel cage to protect him from any sea creature. The one with the cage was in Langkawi and the swim also assisted by the federation...
And one more thing,Malik raised RM150,000 for the National Cancer Association (MAKNA)for the swim... Datuk Farid Arifin the President witnessed by the former Prime MInister given the money to the right channel...
The total distance swam by Malik was 58 kilometers while Lennerd was 33.6km...So count it by yourself why the time was longer for him...
Get more info before comment on anything...Me with all the medias were there....we allhave the proof...Dont simply say anything you dont know...and for your info..Malik didnt get any rewards for real until now...but at least Lennerd get RM35,000...Datuk is just a title given by the state....Is it fair??? Think...He was the first swimmer in Malaysia and in the South East Asia...without him Lennnard might not have the courage to do...
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