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Blog: Going the Extra Mile For An Autograph
BEIJING — Here’s how caught up some Chinese people are in the Olympics.
Thirteen-year-old Lu Zhiyuan and his dad came to Beijing from Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province. That’s 1,000 miles and they did it on bicycle.
And for the past six days, Lu has been camped out at the Beijing airport getting autographs from arriving Olympic athletes. By Thursday he was said to have 300, including tennis star Rafael Nadal — who happened to be on my flight to Beijing — and basketball player Yi Jianlian.
Lu — who shows up at the airport with his father at 11 a.m. every day and waits for athletes until 7 p.m. — told a local newspaperman here he still was waiting for one prized autograph — Kobe Bryant’s.
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By Lee
August 8, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this
Interesting blog, esp. about the 13 yrs old Chinese boy, Lu who rode 1,000 miles to Beijing airport to get autographs from American atheletics. Keep up the good work, Tom. Today (8.8.08) is your lucky day - There is more people get married in the far East than any other day.By Fred
August 7, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this
This blog is so hard to find. Why would you pay to send someone to China, then not promote his blog on the front of the Web site or something? Seems silly.