Chinese Girl Swims River With Limbs Tied
Beijing: A father tied his 10-year-old daughter's hands and feet and watched her swim in a chilly southern China river for three hours in a task he said Thursday would help the girl achieve her dream of swimming across the English Channel . Huang Li swam more than a mile in the Xiang River on Tuesday, traveling with the current, her father said. The girl swam by moving like a dolphin and would sometimes paddle with her bound hands. "Her swimming skills are perfect and she insisted on doing this," Huang Daosheng said in a telephone interview. T he girl, who lives in the city of Zhangjiajie in Hunan province , got the idea after seeing something similar on a local television program, he said. "It's not dangerous because, first, her swimming skills are really good and second, I was swimming with her, staying close to her," the father said. "I had her when I was 35, so she is my heart. I would never play around with her life." The girl started t