If you鈥檙e having trouble catching the Olympic spirit [or if you’re already excited! –Meg], watch pedicab operator Sun Dingguo do his rap in the video above.

My office assistant, Hua Li, spotted Mr. Sun outside the Water Cube aquatics center yesterday and found him curious. Before long, he was singing and dancing for onlookers.

Sun, it turns out, is a 30-year-old pedicab operator from Hangzhou who pedaled all the way to Beijing for the Olympics. He began his journey a year ago and arrived last month after passing through 45 cities, including Shanghai, Qingdao and Tianjin.

Hua Li says Mr. Sun collected 300,000 signatures for the Olympic Games en route and was helped 鈥渂y a lot of warm-hearted people. Many companies and media supported him with money and material. At Jiaozuo in Henan province his tricycle broke down. A nice man helped him repair the tricycle in the rain. In Shijiazhuang in Hebei province, people gave him medicine for a serious toothache.鈥�

Via McClatchy blog: China Rises