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One of these girls is going back home to a loving family, starting college and enjoying the beginning of the rest of her life.

The other two have a one-way ticket to a rural shantytown where they will enjoy the job security of a state-assigned occupation that consists of making poison toothpaste for westerners.

Guess which is which.

...I don't think I'm being jingoistic in saying that the IOC needs to start condemning and rejecting athletes plucked from their lives and tossed into centralized athletic conditioning.

It is no child's civic responsibility or burden to glorify their nation in sport. The state-run athletic system is an enterprise based solely in vanity and a hunger for validation on the international stage.

Fuck you, China.
>> Anonymous
PROTIP: China is superior
>> Anonymous
but the Chinese girls look like really nice people...Nastia looks like a bitch
>> Anonymous
They have toothpaste factories in Texas?
>> Anonymous
>>271419

9-year-olds can't look mean, in the same way that a kitten can't.
>> Anonymous
i love all this delicious american baaaaw
>> Anonymous
Yeah man, american athletes work part time and then train on their spare time, also i heard lebron james helps ghetto kids on his spare time and nastia is working on a cure on cancer, thanks to her studying to be a medical blackbelt her spare time.

The chinese on the other hand lock their athletes in cages and surgically remove their free will and democracy brain sectors.
>> Anonymous
>>271428

What the fuck is baaaaaw?

It's fuckin bawww god damn...
>> Anonymous
>>271428

OP here.

I don't really have much interest in finishes, or anything. It was just a convenient picture to illustrate a point.

I'm an elitist, liberal, human rights-fag.
>> Anonymous
>>271430
>james helps ghetto kids on his spare time and nastia is working on a cure on cancer

STOP WATCHING FOX NEWS NOW
>> Anonymous
>>271445
I'm pretty sure it was sarcasm, holy god
>> ??????Jamaican Tripfag?????? !REDREDLOGo
Oh 1stWorldFags.

Can't stand losing, huh?
>> Anonymous
completely agree, these girls act more like soldiers performing their duty than individuals who find meaning and satisfaction in their actions, their lives.

even with this extreme system in place, the government still decided they needed to cheat, just to ensure the "national glory." they don't seem to grasp how awful this looks to the rest of the world, and how much these actions inspire enmity, not admiration.
>> Anonymous
>>271415Guess which is which.

the one on the left

amirite?
>> Anonymous
Sage for 100 per cent pure seppo bigotry and racism.
>> Anonymous
A lot of these Chinese gymnasts are sent to these schools because their parents are too poor to afford proper education. Most are just there for shelter and food.

Least that was the case last decade, I don't know about now.

ITT: BAAAAAAW
>> Anonymous
>>271514

You're incorrectly implying that these athletes are sent to these camps as a direct result of the family not having the means to provide an education.

That is not true.
>> Anonymous
>>271452
>these girls act more like soldiers performing their duty than individuals who find meaning and satisfaction in their actions, their lives.

Welcome to Olympic Gymnastics.
>> Anonymous
in b4 xenephobia and bigotry
>> Anonymous
fuck china and their chinks. End of thread
>> Anonymous
Mom I wanna go home.. I'm tired of gymnastics.
Mama: NO! YOU GROLIFY CHINA! besides, we have no money. You want grubs?
>> HERE ARE SOME FACTS ABOUT CHINESE ATHLETES Anonymous
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>>271415
Stupid idiot still stuck in the 1980's.

Li Ning - Greatest Chinese gymnasts ever - MultiMillionaire/CEO of Li-Ning Company Ltd, which sells footwear and sporting apparel in China.
>> Anonymous
>>271785
you just made it
>> Anonymous
Then, a little hesitantly, Yang started to answer the questions. And the more she said, the more shocking it was. The answers were brief, spoken without heart. What emerged was a picture of a young girl who has been kept largely cut off from family and the outside world for more than a year, so she could be intensely trained to win medals for China at its own Olympics.

Were your parents here to see you compete, among the cheering crowds?

"I don't know."

When was the last time you went home?"

"Ummm ... before I joined the national team," Yang said, her small voice hard to hear.

When was that?

"More than a year ago."

Will you go on holiday after the games?

"I don't know."

How many holidays do you get a year?

"I have not had a holiday since I joined the national team."

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=gymnastics&id=3536823
>> HERE ARE SOME FACTS ABOUT CHINESE ATHLETES Anonymous
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>>271415
Guo JingJing - Greatest Diver in History - Multi-Millionaire - earns $3 - 5 million a year from endorsements/advertising/etc etc etc. Engaged to be married to a HK billionaire's son.
>> Anonymous
>>271823
So what? Face it americans, chinese girls trained harder and beat your athletes. What's so difficult for your american pea brain to get?
>> HERE ARE SOME FACTS ABOUT CHINESE ATHLETES Anonymous
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>>271415
Liu Xiang - First Chinese to Win Gold @ Olympics Track & Field - Multimillionaire and coverboy of Team China. You cannot go to China without seeing his face everywhere
>> Anonymous
>>271823
What the fuck young Chinese girl wouldn't be nervous about talking to some American reporter? The reporter is trying to spin this shit like there's no tomorrow
>> Anonymous
>>271826
she is one in over a billion. She's also fucking hot
>> Anonymous
The coolest facts are those about chinese athletes without medal.
>> Anonymous
i'd fuck that american chick so hard.
>> HERE ARE SOME FACTS ABOUT CHINESE ATHLETES Anonymous
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>>271415
Yang Wei - Multi Gold Medalist @ 2008 Olympics and the face of Li Ning sportswear. Retiring from gymnastics after the Olympics and marrying former female Olympic gymnastics medalist, Yang Yun.
>> Anonymous
It was complete bullshit about Nastia getting the silver, she should have shared the gold at least.

And this is coming from a chinese britfag. But I couldn't give a shit about chinese pride and all that fagtastic bullshit.
>> HERE ARE SOME FACTS ABOUT CHINESE ATHLETES Anonymous
With her little education and total ignorance of the real world, Zou had little choice but to turn to physical labor. After stints carrying sacks on a construction site and selling lamb kebabs in the street, she ended up as a masseuse in a public bathhouse earning $60 a month. Her fate isn't unusual. A weightlifting coach explained to the Beijing News that Zou wasn't the only retired weightlifter struggling with the real world. "Zou's national medals are worthless. There are world champions who end up jobless after retirement."
>> Anonymous
>>271885

YEAAAAAAAA
>> Anonymous
>>271894
They also have to pawn off their medals and stuff in order to make ends meet.

Any winnings they make go towards the state and not themselves. But China does not care, for it is just a conveyor belt of new machines.
>> HERE ARE SOME FACTS ABOUT CHINESE ATHLETES Anonymous
... Among them, the winner of the 1999 Beijing International Marathon Ai Dongmei, 26, who announced last year that she had no choice but to sell off her medals so that she could feed her family.
>> HERE ARE SOME FACTS ABOUT CHINESE ATHLETES Anonymous
Former Asian weightlifting champion Cai Li died of pneumonia at age 33 after he couldn't afford to pay his medical bills. Liu Fei, a seven-time national champion and world champion in acrobatic gymnastics, struggles to live on the $20 she earned monthly from tutoring gymnastics.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1644120,00.html
"My hard life began the day I retired," says 25-year-old Liu. "I have no place of my own, no job and no basic income. I don't even know what to put on my residence card."
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-06/15/content_339527.htm
>> Anonymous
>>271910
>>271916
Sup slowpoke, want to report any more news from a few years ago?
>> Anonymous
Go read about Ira Hayes, you faggot.

I have no pity for people who can compete at an Olympic level and then fail to get a fucking job in an exploding economy like China's.
>> Anonymous
>>271916
GOOD TIMES!
>> Anonymous
>>271916
>>271910
And how is that different than every other Olympic athlete from every other country. Some fail at life and some others succeed.

There are similar stories about MLB/NFL/NBA players who are bankrupt, committing crimes, drug addicts, poor, ...
>> Anonymous
>>271934

Individual basis versus Country ditching sick athletes or no longer supporting players past their prime.

US competitors have a life to go back to, their failure is there own. Chinese competitors have no effing chance because most are picked out of shit villages, trained, then thrown away.
>> Anonymous
I haven't watched much of the gymnastics, but I saw one of the Chinese girls perform. It was like watching Mr. Fucking Roboto perform gymnastics. Her movements were harsh, abrupt and rigid. There was no real fluidity or gracefulness. It looked like she was doing drills more than a floor routine.
>> Anonymous
China trains muscle reflexes, other countries train for art.

Notice how China tries to make up for it by getting the robots to smile manically with every dismount and point between routines.
>> Anonymous
>>271960
I thought that too.
>> Anonymous
>>271987
Thank you, Shawn Johnson. Congratulations on finally getting a gold!
>> Anonymous
>>271985
Art = missing your mount on the balance beam?

Any of the American gymnasts would give their left tits to be able to do some of the difficult routines the loli chinks breeze through.
>> Anonymous
>>272016
When it's Shawn Johnson straddling that beam. Then yes. Yes, it is art.
>> Anonymous
>>272016
Whut? The Amerikkkans are better on the balance beam than the Chinese... even with that fail on the Team All-Around, the Amerikkans scored higher.
>> Anonymous
>>>/newpol/

Please fuck off to there.