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Ike
10/4/2007, 11:37 AM
...someone would be goin to jail

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/10/04/china.swimmmer.ap/index.html


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.

Viking Kitten
10/4/2007, 11:50 AM
This better start happening in 'merica or them Squints are gonna whoop us in swimming come next year. Damn spoiled 'merican kids.

SoonerDood
10/4/2007, 11:51 AM
ah but it's the Chinese! The Liberal Pansies will apologize to them for thinking this was cruelty or child abuse or whatever. Then they'll sell us a few million lead-painted toys.