"2.20 Meters Tall" – Basketball Player Turns Heads!

A Chinese basketball player has caught attention, taking advantage of her impressive height of two meters and twenty centimeters to excel over her competitors in an international event, and she has begun to be compared to her country's former star Yao Ming. According to the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), Zhang Ziyu stands at two meters and twenty centimeters, but Chinese newspapers have reported that the 17-year-old player is actually 2.28 meters tall. In both cases, she utilized her height to help the host team secure two easy victories this week in the U18 Women’s Asian Championship in Shenzhen, with videos of her circulating worldwide on social media.