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Bird's Nest to witness tightrope Guinness record
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-05-04 16:47
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BEIJING - Chinese legend Adili Wuxor, known as the Prince of Tightrope Walking, started his two-month campaign to break Guinness World Record of steel wire walking and living on Monday at the National Stadium, or the Bird's Nest.
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Adili Wuxor walks on the steel wire in the Bird's Nest on May 3, 2010. [Xinhua] |
In the coming 60 days, Adili, who has already held five Guinness World Records for various stunts, will stay on a steel wire which is 60-meter high and merely 3.3 centimeter in diameter, hung above the Bird's Nest.
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Adili was born in a Uygur family with a 430-year-history in the acrobatics. In 2002, Adili completed a remarkable feat in suburb Beijing by staying on a wire for 25 days and tightrope walking for a total of 123 hours and 48 minutes, an accomplishment recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the greatest living-on-wire in history.
Tightrope walking is called "Dawazi" in the western China. Dawazi is a Uighur traditional sport with a history of nearly 2,000 years.
