"But I know I have to survive against adversity." Lui -- whose grit and determination shone through from an early age -- took up speed skating when he was just 10 years old after his coach Lu Shuo spotted his skills as a young competitive rollerblader. "His coach thought he had potential because when he fell, he would not cry -- he would climb back up and move on," his mother, Catherine Lui, who regularly accompanies him on his travels, told AFP.
ACTION-PACKED EVENT: A skateboarder, a unicyclist and a surfer at the Xperience Festival, where crowds came to spectate AIMING HIGH: A rollerblader at the Xperience Festival, held along Tynemouth's seafront at the weekend
Jobless, freewheeling rollerblader Jeanne (Dequenne) resides in the suburbs--not the ethnically mixed high-rise hotspot of recent French cinema, but a peaceful backwater where her widowed mother (Deneuve) has retreated to cultivate her garden and mind the neighborhood tots.
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