Help Disabled People be Involved in Sports: China

First race on first day of 2017

On the first day of 2017, lanjingling run as a team on the first race of the year, 11 teams (4 people as a team, one is visually impaired runner, another three are guider) run on Shanghai Circuit for New Year celebrating.

4 teams run 21.6km and 7 teams run 5.4km. Visually impaired group is especially set up for champions on this race, Baoqun team (21.6km, 1:59:40) and Hongxin Li team(5.6km, 00:33:22) pick this honor. This is the first time the large public running race establish a separate awards for people with visual impairment. This is the milestone for “sports accessibility” in local race.

The 2 years anniversary of beYoureyeS

On Jan 15^th 2017, we hold the 2 year anniversary of beYoureyeS. We share the present, issue the certificate, and show the talent...

One the talent show, we know each other much better, not only run together, but also share the friendly music time, there are different traditional instrument, such as erhu, pipa, guzheng.

From Jan.2015 to Jan.2017, we run for 2 whole years, from an idea to a real realistic. From a few people to hundreds people. On 2015, there are no visually impaired runner appear on race, but on 2017, it seems like a normal things. There are many other visually impaired group appear in different city in China, beYoureyeS as a leader, we know where we are now, and where we should run to.

"Sports accessibility" is not only about sport, it's much more focus on accessibility, and what we are doing now is not only good for visually inpaired people, but also good for the society. It’s a long race, longer than marathon, more complex than triathlon, and we are on the way.