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Forging of the Mandarin mermaid: How Chinese children are taken away from their families and brutalised into future Olympians

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Via:  the-irascible-harry-krishner  •  12 years ago  •  1 comments

Forging of the Mandarin mermaid: How Chinese children are taken away from their families and brutalised into future Olympians

article-0-144C2E95000005DC-672_634x323.jpg Winning at all costs: Children are put through their paces doing punishing exercises to toughen them up.

  • Chinese state earmarks potential champions from young age
  • Youngsters are sent away to gruelling training camps
  • Olympic champion Ye Shiwen said her extraordinary swim was a result of 'hard work and training'

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Krishna
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link   seeder  Krishna    12 years ago

During recent years its swimmers and coaches have been caught cheating so many times it is difficult to keep count - and it has modelled its draconian training system on precisely that which produced Schneider and other turbo-charged East Germans before the Iron Curtain fell.

It began in the Eighties when, determined to end the nations perennial humiliation at major athletics and swimming championships, Chinas Communist regime decreed that a generation of future champions must be harvested and honed . . .

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