Picture of Xie Houguo and bicycle in City Square, Leeds.Walking across City Square when I noticed some young Chinese, possibly students photographing an older lady with a bike. I asked one of them what it was about and he said that this little granny had ridden her bike from China to England for the Olympics.
I thought wow, thats some trek for anyone but on further questions she had flown to Hungary and ridden the little folding bicycle from there apart from the ferry from France to Dover. No wonder these young people wanted to get a photo of this lady and her bike.
Xie Houguo aged 63, is a retired worker from the Chongqing Tap Water Company in China. Xie completed in 2007 a tour of China's 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions after being seriously injured in a road accident. In 2008 Xie was a torchbearer at the Beijing Olympics.
In the background are from left the newly restored Majestic Cinema building, the former General Post Office building, Bond Court and lastly the much newer 1 City Square.
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What an amazing story and photo you captured here. How inspiring she took to this feat (on a little folding bike, no less!) after an injury in a road accident too. Thank you for sharing - a nice reminder as the Olympics loom that individual stories of perseverance are at the heart of the glitz.
ReplyDeleteVery impressive ride through China like that. And riding from Hungary to the UK is also impressive. Glad you decided to ask what was going on!
ReplyDeleteFantastic, watch out Bradley Wiggins!
ReplyDeleteTerrific story and photo!
ReplyDeleteSometimes interesting stories just present themselves when you are in the right place at the right time. Glad you inquired about what was up. Quite inspirational, really.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your visit and comments. You're right, I was a big fan of the West Wing. Interestingly, the media have adopted the use of POTUS. Recently it's been expanded to the Supreme Court which is now referred to as SCOTUS. Life imitating art.
Well done, sporty Lady!!!!
ReplyDeleteNice documentary.
Beautiful photo - Amazing woman!
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