by Sportswriters Sun Zhe, Hu Jiali, Yu Sihui
HANGZHOU, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) — If life were a game of Go, the 23-year-old Xie Haitao has undoubtedly faced one of the worst starting positions.
He was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) at the age of one, which is a rare genetic neuromuscular disorder, with an incidence in Chinese newborns ranging from 1 in 6,000 to 1 in 10,000. To this day, it remains