This year at the Olympic games in Rio, you might stumble¹ across a pretty interesting sight outside of the various stadiums holding competitions around the city.

 

今年里约奥运会期间，你可能会在各个比赛场馆外面碰到一个奇特的场景。
 

 

Meet Chen Guanming, a 60-year-old Chinese farmer who pedalled his rickshaw all the way from China to Rio. He calls himself "Olympic madman," and surely he deserves² it: this is the third Olympic Games he rode to.

 

Brazilians welcomed him with the best friendship and a splendid show after he arrived Rio a week earlier.

 

Seventeen years ago, he embarked³ the crazy adventure as an Olympics chaser: he toured around China before attending the Beijing Olympics in 2008, then made it to London in 2012, and now he's in Rio. He plans to finish his global journey in Tokyo for the 2020 Olympics.

 

He doesn't really have money, but strangers he met on the road have been pouring support to him: a heart-felt encouragement, a warm meal, or a lift up a hill -- the rickshaw, his good buddy⁴, carries all his luggage and weighs as heavy as 400 pounds.

 

Zsofia Korodi, a Hungarian living in London, set up a Facebook fan page after being "inspired by his actions," so that supporters keep track of him.

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