India: 5-Year-Old Marathoner to Walk 300 Miles

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 18, 2007
Budhia Singh, the 5-year-old whose long-distance running set off an outcry from rights activists last year and led to a ban on his future runs, is planning to walk 500 kilometers, about 310 miles, in 10 days beginning June 6, his coach said. After a marathon last year, doctors found him to be undernourished, anemic and under cardiac stress, and the Orissa State government barred him from running. Budhia’s walk is to start in Orissa. Officials were looking into those plans.