Despite rare growth syndrome, cancer and bullying past, Milou van Wijk storms the swimming top: ‘We can think more than we think’

This week Milou van Wijk not only travels with bathing suits, diving goggles and bathing caps towards Singapore for the Langebaan World Championship, she also takes a load of self -confidence. The only 20-year-old specialist on the freestyle storms the international swimming top. Although her way there was anything but easy. Van Wijk tells frankly about her rare disease, the years in which she was bullied and why a basketball career was exchanged for a swimming career.

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