Girl swims with limbs bound
Updated: 2007-10-04 16:37
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Huang Li swims in the Xiangjiang River with hands and feet bound on Tuesday. [Xiaoxiang Morning Herald] |
CHANGSHA -- A 10-year-old girl in Central China's Hunan Province swam for three hours in a tributary of the Yangtze River on Tuesday with hands and feet bound to test her endurance, hoping she would be inscribed into the Guiness Book of World Records someday.
Huang Li, a fourth-grader from Sangzhi County in the city of Zhangjiajie, managed to swim along in the Xiangjiang River with her bound feet as her parents kept an eye on her.
She had covered three kilometers before her mother told her to stop and fed her some cake.
"I know she can still continue, but I fear she might be in danger," said Huang's mother Song Jinfang. "It's getting cold and she had only a bowl of noodles for lunch before she started swimming at 12:45 pm."
For financial reasons, the family had not bought any insurance to protect the girl from potential harms during the swimming.
"Next time, she will swim farther and I'll follow her in a boat to ensure safety," said the father.
The family didn't say whose idea it was to bind the girl's limbs, but the father Huang Daosheng, a middle school teacher, insisted this would help improve the girl's swimming skills and eventually help fulfil her dream to swim across the English Channel.
Huang Li's father said she is a swimming prodigy. She learned to swim at five and her father has been her coach.
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