8-Year Olds Are Such Wusses

Seems that some people in China are upset that some dude had his daughter run a bunch of marathons. They're mad because she's only 8-years-old. Frankly I don't see that being any worse than those parents who let their kids sit in front of a TV all day eating Gogurt, but hey, that's just me.

An eight-year-old Chinese girl has arrived in Beijing after state media said she ran 3,560 km (2,212 miles) to celebrate the 2008 Olympics, a feat which brought her father accusations of child abuse.

Zhang Huimin arrived on Sunday after she started her extraordinary odyssey on July 3 from Sanya, at the southern tip of the island province of Hainan, with her father following her all the way on a motorized bicycle, the Beijing News said.

See he was there "supervising" the entire time ... what's the big deal?

Zhang got up at 2.30 a.m. every day to train for the run, Xinhua news agency said, and would have had to have run about 65 km a day for 55 days -- the equivalent of about one and a half marathons a day.

65km? What's that, like a mile or two?

"I have mixed entertainment with training for my daughter, and, plus, she loves running. I did not impose my will on her," her father, an amateur runner himself, was quoted as saying.

"It is worth paying the price and making sacrifices for the glory of the country."

There you go... "she loves running" and if you can't show your affection for your great country by abusing your kid, then what's the point?

(Reuters)
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