Why did the Olympic madman who cycled 170,000 kilometers around the world pass away?

Chen Guanming is an out-and-out farmer from Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province. He has been cycling around China since 2001, and has traveled all over China, extending to Asia, Europe, North America and South America, and has cycled three times in Beijing, London and Rio Olympic Games host cities "appeared".

At 23:25 on October 18, 2017, Argentina time, a car accident occurred at kilometer 2294 of Argentina’s National Highway 3. A truck traveling from the north to the south of Argentina collided with the tricycle driven by Chen Guanming. .

The moment the truck ran over him, Chen Guanming’s cycling journey of more than 170,000 kilometers came to an end.

"If fate lets me end up somewhere, it will be God's will."

In 2001, after Beijing's successful bid for the Olympic Games, this farmer from Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province launched a 1998 business with 760 yuan The tricycle purchased in RMB started its own riding journey. Before that, he had been farming for 45 years.

Nearly seven years later, Chen Guanming has cycled more than 65,000 kilometers, passing through more than a thousand counties and cities, including Xinjiang and Tibet. In his words, he has traveled all over the country except Taiwan.

In 2007, photographer Mr. Shi met Chen Guanming in Pingyao. The first thing he saw was "that cool tricycle." The tricycle was very old, but its red top stood out among the crowd. Chen Guanming will hang different slogans on the ceiling at different times, such as "Welcome the Olympics" and "Protect the Environment."

Everywhere he goes, Chen Guanming will ask the local department to sign and stamp his name as a souvenir. The Hong Kong Sports Bureau left a message in his memorial book: "Have a safe journey and complete the feat."

In 2008 In July, Chen Guanming arrived in Beijing. During the Olympic Games, he could often be seen around the Bird's Nest and Water Cube.

“I will ride wherever the Olympics go.” After that, he was not satisfied with domestic cycling and began to follow the footsteps of the Olympics to travel around the world, going to London and Rio.

The hood of Chen Guanming's tricycle reads in both Chinese and English: "Olympic spirit helps world peace." He feels that the Olympics "brings peace to the world and makes people more harmonious."

In the summer of 2016, during an interview on the streets of Rio, he also described his travel plan for the next Olympic cycle to reporters, "I must rush to Japan by 2020."

In an interview, a reporter once asked Chen Guanming if he had ever thought about encountering danger. He said: "I have never thought about it. If fate lets me end up somewhere, it will be God's will!"

Chen Guanming’s last update on social platforms was posted at 0:08 on October 18. It was a 6-second short video. In the picture, he was wearing black long sleeves and a fluorescent green vest, standing in front of a tricycle with a foreign woman with blond hair and red lips, laughing.

He is not very proficient in using his mobile phone, and the videos he sends out are almost always horizontal or diagonal. But in every video, he smiles brightly.

"If there is a land route, ride a bike; if there is no land route, take a boat." This is how Chen Guanming described his journey in an understatement, but it was not easy to ride 170,000 kilometers.