How Chinese children are taken away from their families and brutalised into future Olympians

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How absolutely disgusting. But then again, the west has Toddlers and Tiaras.









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    terrible training system....
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  • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
    You seem remarkably fixated on China -- what's up with that? Not enough problems in Australia? If China is guilty of intense training of athletes from a young age and using artificial chemical enhancements, they're guilty of the same crime widely documented to take place with athletes in the West as well. Some difference, sure, but variations of the same theme.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeff Burritt
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    What is the blue stick she's holding in her hand? Doesn't look good
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  • Profile picture of the author Ninja Ana
    This is brutal. I think the blue stick is use to strike the kids if they did not obey or get the instruction correctly.
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  • Profile picture of the author nelspetty924
    Ow my, this is really brutal, does their parents know about this. Now I know why Chinese athletes often get a gold in every Olympic season.
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  • Profile picture of the author RyanTH
    The Chinese team needs to find a good dentist.
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  • Profile picture of the author hardraysnight
    be interesting if you got past the photos
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeff Burritt
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    Is this why they're leading the medal count right now?
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  • Profile picture of the author MilkerFocus
    That's why I hate Chinese Government.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      It's sad - but in any society where the populace (the PARENTS) allow this level of governmental control it's what you will find.

      When the people of those countries decide to stop participating - change will happen. That may come for generations in the future. As long as the culture allows this behavior, what I think about it doesn't matter.

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  • Profile picture of the author ChadClayton
    well..... " Perfection comes with great COST ''!! .. that's what I saw in all these,
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  • Profile picture of the author ryanhan
    hardcore training....poor kids.
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  • Profile picture of the author KingKuba
    They should do that in America. Kids are too soft here, need discipline.
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  • Profile picture of the author betberry
    wow,maybe 7-8 years later,this kid will blast a gold medal
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  • Profile picture of the author williambrown
    This is so sad, they're just kids. Their childhood in exchange of a potential gold medal in the Olympics.
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    • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
      Originally Posted by williambrown View Post

      This is so sad, they're just kids. Their childhood in exchange of a potential gold medal in the Olympics.
      I wouldn't want that for my toddler. To use a music analogy, I believe in a jazz lifestyle where improvisation skills are emphasized over classical lifestyle where strict military-drill-style routines and learning-by-rote are paramount. Life, surviving, and business are more like no-holds-barred MMA than gentleman's Marquess of Queensberry Rules pugilistic sport. It's not that I don't want my son to evolve and develop well, but I want his own initiative and creativity to be a major part of that. There are already too many miserable academic drones in society.

      With China's massive gold medal harvest in the 2012 summer Olympics, their approach is producing strong results so I wouldn't deem to judge them, but I won't incorporating any hardcore "chi ku" (eat bitterness) approach to my life and certainly not imposing on my son's life.

      Chinese movies have typically ended with someone who defied authority tragically howling over the corpse of a loved one. Now, increasingly, they end more like a Hollywood movie on a positive and hopeful note. While China, more and more, embraces American style ingenuity and positivism, the USA, more and more, embraces old-school Chinese-style hardcore authoritarianism, fear-mongering, and negativity.

      If my statements here drift oddly and strange directions, it's because sleepy. Carry on.
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      • Profile picture of the author vigossqi
        how can they do this!!!!!
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  • Profile picture of the author rillpoll
    oh my gosh, how could they doing such things to children. they must be dont have any child...
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