A seven-year-old boy from Taichung has set a Guinness World Record for the largest medal sentence that consists of 1,152 medals.
Wu Tsung-hsiu (吳宗修), who last month in New York won his 158th medal at an international competition, was sent to marital arts training by his parents after he was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) when he was three years old.
Wu’s parents first became aware of his condition after he got into a fight with another child on his first day of kindergarten and noticed that he was unable to sit still for any length of time, his father said.
Photo courtesy of Wu Chin-chieh
Wu is an avid fan of Bruce Lee (李小龍), who he considers his idol, and said he wanted to be as “awesome” as the martial arts star, his father said.
Hoping to encourage his son to cultivate his interests and challenge himself, he sent Wu to martial arts classes, he added.
Seeing his son win gold medals in international competitions made him happy, but what made him even happier was seeing him “turn into a new person” in regard to his ability to focus and concentrate, he said.
Previously unable to finish his homework even after three hours, Wu can now focus and finish it on time, his father said.
Spurred on by his first gold medal in taekwondo, Wu began studying wing chun and more esoteric martial arts, including bajiquan (八極拳), which is normally studied by advanced adult students, Wu’s father said.
At a competition earlier this year in Hong Kong, Wu won gold medals in all categories, achieving “special honors” and winning praise from Hong Kong martial artists, who referred to him as a “future star,” his father said.
Wu’s father applied on his son’s behalf to Guinness World Records, which on Oct. 28 sent an official to Taiwan to inspect Wu’s medals and paperwork, and then register his record.
“Every time I win a gold medal I feel 100 percent happy. Now that I have this world record, I feel 1,000 percent happy. I hope I can be as great as Bruce Lee and also win an Olympic gold. Then I will be 10,000 percent happy,” Wu said.
This story has been amended since it was first published.
China might accelerate its strategic actions toward Taiwan, the South China Sea and across the first island chain, after the US officially entered a military conflict with Iran, as Beijing would perceive Washington as incapable of fighting a two-front war, a military expert said yesterday. The US’ ongoing conflict with Iran is not merely an act of retaliation or a “delaying tactic,” but a strategic military campaign aimed at dismantling Tehran’s nuclear capabilities and reshaping the regional order in the Middle East, said National Defense University distinguished adjunct lecturer Holmes Liao (廖宏祥), former McDonnell Douglas Aerospace representative in Taiwan. If
TO BE APPEALED: The environment ministry said coal reduction goals had to be reached within two months, which was against the principle of legitimate expectation The Taipei High Administrative Court on Thursday ruled in favor of the Taichung Environmental Protection Bureau in its administrative litigation against the Ministry of Environment for the rescission of a NT$18 million fine (US$609,570) imposed by the bureau on the Taichung Power Plant in 2019 for alleged excess coal power generation. The bureau in November 2019 revised what it said was a “slip of the pen” in the text of the operating permit granted to the plant — which is run by Taiwan Power Co (Taipower) — in October 2017. The permit originally read: “reduce coal use by 40 percent from Jan.
‘SPEY’ REACTION: Beijing said its Eastern Theater Command ‘organized troops to monitor and guard the entire process’ of a Taiwan Strait transit China sent 74 warplanes toward Taiwan between late Thursday and early yesterday, 61 of which crossed the median line in the Taiwan Strait. It was not clear why so many planes were scrambled, said the Ministry of National Defense, which tabulated the flights. The aircraft were sent in two separate tranches, the ministry said. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday “confirmed and welcomed” a transit by the British Royal Navy’s HMS Spey, a River-class offshore patrol vessel, through the Taiwan Strait a day earlier. The ship’s transit “once again [reaffirmed the Strait’s] status as international waters,” the foreign ministry said. “Such transits by
Taiwan is doing everything it can to prevent a military conflict with China, including building up asymmetric defense capabilities and fortifying public resilience, Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) said in a recent interview. “Everything we are doing is to prevent a conflict from happening, whether it is 2027 or before that or beyond that,” Hsiao told American podcaster Shawn Ryan of the Shawn Ryan Show. She was referring to a timeline cited by several US military and intelligence officials, who said Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) had instructed the Chinese People’s Liberation Army to be ready to take military action against Taiwan
RSS