Quote (zarkadon @ Aug 2 2012 02:16pm)
have you seen how they train kids in China?
for the Beijing Olympics, the goverment looked for promising kids for many different sports and trained them in the most horrible ways, it was iterally torture, with the kids crying while they were doing stuff to gain strength, resistance or flexibility.
e: images are a bit rough, google nanning gym
not to mention most of these athletes came out of poverty and getting a medal is their only way into a comfortable life
Life sucks sometimes, especially if you are not American. Would you rather the kids from 3rd world countries be forced to make tennis shoes for Lebron and Kobe, than train at athletics?