HyperReaper33

A father tied his 10-year-old daughter's hands and feet and watched her swim in a chilly southern China river for three hours in a task he said Thursday would help the girl achieve her dream of swimming across the English Channel.

Huang Li swam more than a mile in the Xiang River on Tuesday, traveling with the current, her father said. The girl swam by moving like a dolphin and would sometimes paddle with her bound hands.

"Her swimming skills are perfect and she insisted on doing this," Huang Daosheng said in a telephone interview. The girl, who lives in the city of Zhangjiajie in Hunan province, got the idea after seeing something similar on a local television program, he said.

With the Beijing Olympics less than a year away, sports is grabbing greater attention in an already sports-crazed country. Huang Li's swim is at least the second time in recent months that a child athlete has drawn media attention.

You can read more about this at the link below.

http://www.livescience.com/strangene...irl-swims.html

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MrApples

Wrong forum. But leave it, I took down the global display because of vb, taking a bit longer than expected though.

King Stubby

Well, the Chinese DO love their sports. Maybe it was the super girl option?

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Tissue

I'm gonna vote for Crazy dad... ^^

Natemaster

Wow, I think I'd vote for both, lol. Tha'ts pretty crazy that a girl would actually want to do that. I think I'd drown with my hands and arms free :roll: