Its 4am and 50-something-year-old bestselling author Linda Jaivin is out in a club in Beijing, partying with a group of paralympians. They have come from various countries, England, Australia and are, according to Linda, some of “the biggest party animals I have ever met.” One in particular is dancing so …
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An adolescent youth with a military-style crew cut faces a foreign camera crew, hands behind his back like he’s taking a team photo. He has the dreamy, dissociated gaze of a man who has just awakened from a dream, and looks down at the medal hanging by a ribbon around …
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