“Basketball Girl” now an athlete!

By Miss Cellania in Sports on Sep 4, 2007 at 8:22 am

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Qian Hongyan, the young amputee who used a basketball in lieu of legs (featured previously on Neatorama), has joined a swim team! She hopes to compete in the 2012 Paralympics in London. Although she now has prosthetic legs, she uses the basketball during swim training to help her get in and out of the pool. Link -via Arbroath


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  1. Rence
    Sep 4th, 2007 at 8:38 am

    If we can make prosthetic flippers for dolphins, surely we must be able to supply this girl with a fun mermaids tail of some sort? That basketball would drag too much in the water..

  2. Miss Cellania
    Sep 4th, 2007 at 8:46 am

    Most likely possible, but it might violate the standards of the Paralympics.

  3. Ali S.
    Sep 4th, 2007 at 11:41 am

    Seeing that she has to be sponsored to go to the Paralympics I wonder why she hasn’t gotten any neat prosthetics she can use to move?

  4. L
    Sep 4th, 2007 at 12:39 pm

    I doubt she actually uses the basketball in the pool. She can probably swim like a fish without it! I got the impression that the basketball was just for getting into and out of the pool.

    Good for her!

  5. Alex
    Sep 4th, 2007 at 5:51 pm

    Wow! I’m humbled and kind of ashamed that I didn’t/couldn’t/haven’t yet done anything all that special with my life. Go basketball girl go!


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