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KUNMING, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 2: (CHINA OUT) Disabled ten-year-old girl Qian Hongyan rests on her underprop, a basketball during a training session at the South of the Clouds Swimming Club on September 2, 2007 in Kunming of Yunnan Province, China. Handicapped Qian, known as the "Basketball girl", joined the club on August 6 to learn to swim and dreams of competing during the London 2012 Special Olympics. She lost both of her legs in a traffic accident in 2000 at the age of three, but struggled to live her life with a basketball as her underpinning. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)

KUNMING, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 2: (CHINA OUT) Disabled ten-year-old girl Qian Hongyan rests on her underprop, a basketball during a training session at the South of the Clouds Swimming Club on September 2, 2007 in Kunming of Yunnan Province, China. Handicapped Qian, known as the "Basketball girl", joined the club on August 6 to learn to swim and dreams of competing during the London 2012 Special Olympics. She lost both of her legs in a traffic accident in 2000 at the age of three, but struggled to live her life with a basketball as her underpinning. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)