Thursday, April 01, 2010

11-year old talent selected to Chinese swimming national team

A news report a couple days ago described a 11-year old girl named Li Terter who has been starring in a number of movies and TV drama and now becomes one in the Chinese swimming team training under Han Bingyan, who has a IM World champion, Chen Yan and a World championships 200m breaststroke finalist, Luo Nan under his belt. According to the report, she had an experience of acting with Tony Leung Ka Fai, a veteran HK actor who was featuring in French moive, L'amant (or The Lover ) in 1992. at 11, She stands at 1.63m and holds a feet size of 39 (??). She has not received any high-volume training but already shown her talent in the swimming competition of her age in Chongqing city (Chongqing = Chungking (express), the movie from Wang Kar Wei) where the swimmer team no longer exists. Her coach and the leaders from the city sports council noticed her great talent and took her to Beijing probing her way into the probation training in the national team. When the Chinese national head coach, Yao Zhenjie saw them, he immediately suggested her to go back first and only train with the team during the school holidays. However, when he saw her in the splash and her great physical conditions (feet and hand size), he changed his mind. Her coach in Chongqing city gave an explanation on Li's case that Yao deceided to take her in because Li is like a unpolished jade in swimming that she has not received any high-volume training and she cannot even do any chin-ups due to her undeveloped physical strength but she has shown very convincing talent in swimming.

No comments: