Dream to be launched into orbit

She had hoped to celebrate the Olympic Games last year as part of the youth wushu team.

But when she injured her ankle in practice and had to leave the team, Luo Jie, now 18, found another way to attend the Games - by composing a song for it.

Her song, Ave Coubertin, an ode to the father of the modern Olympics, was played in several stadiums during the Games and clinched the girl another Olympic score - as a torchbearer for the Games.