Liu Xianghui bicycled across 1,300 km or 800 miles to capital of Red China towing his 98-year-old grandma in a cycle rickshaw to fulfil her dream of attending the Olympics. Reports of Chinese sports fans going to extremes to support the Olympics have been popping up in Chinese newspapers and websites since the start of the Games on August 8.
They are indulging in stunts like shaving five Olympic rings into hair. But even these look old-fashioned. Wen Shengchu, 58, a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, stuck 200 acupuncture pins bearing flags into his head. Huang Junde, 62, of Chongqing, used 1,860 badges of China’s former leader Mao Zedong to make Olympic symbols. Walking around Beijing and the Olympic venues, examples of fan fever are everywhere as Chinese people take the government’s message of fully supporting the Games to heart.
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Monday, August 18, 2008
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