Female bodybuilder with one leg captures hearts in China


Bodybuilder Gui Yuna has been feted as an inspiration in a country where disabled people are all too often marginalised. - AFP

SHANGHAI (AFP): Tears fill Gui Yuna's eyes as she describes losing her right leg in a road accident aged seven and school bullies kicking away her crutch to make her fall.

But they would not dare do that now -- the 35-year-old is a prize-winning bodybuilder and former Paralympian whose inspirational story has gone viral in China.

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