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The world is crazy about the ongoing London Olympics Games, despite needed time to take care of his wife and daughter, Andy Lau is also crazy about the Olympic Games as he watched the live telecast till late night around 3am and still managed to go to work at 5am. Actually he’s also anticipating the 14th Paralympic Games opening on 29 August in London.

To show his support for the disabled and Paralympic Games athletes, he made a trip to Beijing Paralympic Games Center earlier to visit and show support to the athletes who were busy training. Andy revealed that in early September, he would fly off to London to show his support for the Paralympic Games. Upon hearing, all the athletes present cheered and sent invitation to Andy to watch them when they compete.

The Chinese Paralympic Games committee also presented a 2012 London Paralympic Games Chinese athletes Love Ambassador to Andy at the end of his visit. He said: “Whenever I see them, I would learn a lot from them, hope more people will show their concern to the disabled, support them and help them.”

In the short 1-day visit, Andy visited the track and field, blinded ball arena, swimming pool and basketball arena to show his support for the athletes before taking an early flight back to Hong Kong the next day.

Other than visiting, Andy participated in their training to experience what the athletes are feeling. He created quite a commotion at the wheelchair basketball as the athletes surrounded him for autographs and photographs, some even quipped that they would wear the Andy-autographed gear to complete in the Paralympic Games. While on the wheelchair, Andy did not managed to score as he sighed: “It’s not that simple! The wheelchair will wobble when you’re in a shooting position, how these athletes managed to shoot and score, really need time and effort to train.” When told by the coach that the wheelchair team won 10 gold medals in 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games, Andy was shocked as he hope that they can do better this year.

At the blinded ball arena, Andy blindfolded his eyes to play ball. When he arrived, he recalled: “4 years ago I experienced this game, that time I was knocked out by a ball from a female player, never expected that it will be so pain, leave me a deep impression.” As he was blindfolded, he could only made use of the sound of the bell to determine the position to shoot, used hearing to pass ball, however the strength that he used was too soft that his team mates failed to catch the ball he passed, when shooting, his ball knocked onto the crew member standing by the side. He then quipped: “All of you team up to tease me…..” Everybody present burst into laughter.

At the swimming pool, Andy doubled up as assistant for He Junquan who won 4 gold medals and a silver medal in 2004 Greece Paralympic Games and 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games. When Andy saw him, he quipped: “I’m back.” As He Junquan is armless, thus he need an assistant to hold a towel for He Junquan to bite during the start of the lap, Andy became his assistant and wish him to do better in London.

Andy would also be attending the Hong Kong Paralympic Games activities before flying off to London for the games in September to show support for the athletes.

Source: Sing Tao News, Macao Daily, Liberty Times, Apple Daily News, Headline Daily, Hong Kong Daily, Wei Wen Po, Sing Pao, Sing Tao News, Ming Pao, Apple Daily News
Translated by: AndyLauSounds