An Article from CBS which gives examples of how Chinese Young Talent is nurtured from a very young age. Debatable if this is by choice or by force for this young athletes, but what is appreciable is that China is thinking way ahead of atleast India on winning more Gold Medals in olympics and hence developing its talent and infrastructure for greater things in the next decade.
http://www.cbsnews.com/
The Making Of China's Olympic Golden Age
Nine-year-old Zhang Huiman is on the lonely road to Olympic gold, running 20 miles a day preparing for the games of 2020.
"My heroes," she says through a translator, "are runners who won gold medals."
Welcome to a nation so obsessed with Olympic gold that it is training 200,000 handpicked kids in state-run sports boarding schools, CBS News correspondent Barry Petersen reports.
Weightlifter Ye Ping came there four years ago.
"I miss my mom and dad," she says through a translator. "But the Olympics is the goal of every athlete."
It's the same system the Soviets used to train gold medalists like Maria Filatova in their Cold-War sports duel with the United States.
Now a coach in upstate New York, she remembers officials motivated to find the children with the most potential.
People were promoted, she told CBS News if their athletes won gold.
Copying the Soviets, the Chinese went all out - to out-gold the United States.
The Olympic Games plan: sports with less profile but more medals.
Meanwhile, China has three in judo, five in shooting and eight in weightlifting.
To the Chinese, weightlifting counters those golds won by Michael Phelps.
"I think it's important that people realize that the Olympic Games can be gamed," said Matt Forney, a former Beijing bureau chief for Time Magazine who recently wrote an op-ed article on the topic.
Winning isn't just about bringing home a gold medal - it's also about winning a golden future. For many Chinese athletes, thanks to a grateful nation, they can be set for life.
They get a $150,000 bonus - 30 times the average Chinese annual salary.
But the real message is Communism beats Democracy.
"It's their way of showing, see 'our' system - the Chinese Communist Party - put our country on top of the gold medals chart," said Olympic historian David Wallechinsky.
They're already practicing for future Olympics - to again win the most gold - and again win Olympic bragging rights over America.
Nine-year-old Zhang Huiman is on the lonely road to Olympic gold, running 20 miles a day preparing for the games of 2020.
"My heroes," she says through a translator, "are runners who won gold medals."
Welcome to a nation so obsessed with Olympic gold that it is training 200,000 handpicked kids in state-run sports boarding schools, CBS News correspondent Barry Petersen reports.
Weightlifter Ye Ping came there four years ago.
"I miss my mom and dad," she says through a translator. "But the Olympics is the goal of every athlete."
It's the same system the Soviets used to train gold medalists like Maria Filatova in their Cold-War sports duel with the United States.
Now a coach in upstate New York, she remembers officials motivated to find the children with the most potential.
People were promoted, she told CBS News if their athletes won gold.
Copying the Soviets, the Chinese went all out - to out-gold the United States.
The Olympic Games plan: sports with less profile but more medals.
Meanwhile, China has three in judo, five in shooting and eight in weightlifting.
To the Chinese, weightlifting counters those golds won by Michael Phelps.
"I think it's important that people realize that the Olympic Games can be gamed," said Matt Forney, a former Beijing bureau chief for Time Magazine who recently wrote an op-ed article on the topic.
Winning isn't just about bringing home a gold medal - it's also about winning a golden future. For many Chinese athletes, thanks to a grateful nation, they can be set for life.
They get a $150,000 bonus - 30 times the average Chinese annual salary.
But the real message is Communism beats Democracy.
"It's their way of showing, see 'our' system - the Chinese Communist Party - put our country on top of the gold medals chart," said Olympic historian David Wallechinsky.
They're already practicing for future Olympics - to again win the most gold - and again win Olympic bragging rights over America.
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