Unbeatable spirit lights the flame

He was nine when he lost his left leg in a train accident on International Children's Day. But he could read the message in the eyes of the people who rescued him. They "thought my life was finished".

Hou Bin has not only proved them wrong, but also is a big enough success to have the honor of lighting the Paralympic Games torch in the National Stadium on Saturday.

Sitting in his wheelchair, the three-time Paralympic gold medallist took five minutes to pull himself up a rope with bare hands and "fly" to roof of the Bird's Nest to light the torch.