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Qian Hongyan

Friends. A post about bent for of a life. Qian Hongyan at the age of three years has got to car accident and... For the sake of rescue of a life doctors to amputate both feet. The poor family of the Chinese girl did not presume to itself expensive operation of prosthetics, therefore for convenience of movement to a body of the child parents have attached half of basketball ball. In ten years the girl having mastered the Chinese variant of an artificial limb registers in pool and begins active trainings, floating every day on (!) 2000 metres.

In 2007 this history was told by many news agencies of China, and this year the girl was performed at last operation on prosthetics of feet. Dream of the girl — a gold medal on Paralympic Games in London (2012) that promoted actively by trainers for a minute not doubting in success. Now, having high-grade artificial limbs, the girl continues to float as before with a basketball ball since as she said so it is easier to get out and smaller loading.