Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/09/04
By: Wu Che-hao and S.C. Chang

Taipei, Sept. 4 (CNA) It took Vicky Guo (郭韋齊) three and a half hours to finish a 3-kilometer swim across Sun Moon Lake Sunday, a feat that completed the amputee’s three dreams of making the swim, biking around Taiwan and climbing Taiwan’s highest peak — the 3,952-meter Jade Mountain.

Guo was among 187 physically challenged people who comprised the first group of more than 20,000 swimmers from 26 countries to swim across the scenic Sun Moon Lake in central Taiwan Sunday and Monday.

Guided by her coach, Guo, whose hands and feet were amputated at the age of seven due to a high fever and sepsis, strove her way to the other shore of the lake in three and a half hours.

“I take this as the best birthday gift to myself,” said Guo, who turned 23 that day.     [FULL  STORY]