And the Olympics stunts continue. Now a man in Liling, Hunan, will walk 2,008 kilometers wearing 56-kilogram iron shoes.

Zhang Zhenghui said his iron shoes represent the 56 nationalities in China.

Zhang, nicknamed "the King of the Iron Shoes", has appeared on television several times.

He started wearing the shoes to help cure a chronic disease in 1988.

He once wore a pair of iron shoes weighing 114 kilograms for a China Central Television program in 2003. And his iron shoes increased to 120 kilograms in 2004 and 123 kilograms in 2005.