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The lip sync thing is just plain obnoxious. I wonder if Zhang Yimou had anything to do with it (what, you don't think that Gong Li's breasts normally look like that, do you?).

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Given all that, we should be proud of the silver. And if the silver is the price we pay for the fact that our gymnasts are 1) the proper age and 2) actually know who their parents are, I'll take the silver proudly.

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People with use any edge they can to get ahead and the one-child policy can often exacerbate the problem.

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Each year a team of coaches selects 150 snotty-nosed four-year-olds from all the nursery schools in the city of Shanghai. Chen does not usually pick the child who jumps the highest or is the fastest runner in the school playground. He prefers to ask parents: "Is your son a little devil?" before they hurry to point out how well behaved their little child is, unwittingly ruining his chances of being picked. "What we are looking for are disobedient children because those are the ones with the extra energy to offer," says the coach. "A bit more sacrifice to contribute."
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A first group of pre-selected children must put up with an hour and a half of gruelling testing in order to ascertain whether they are sufficiently resistant to pain despite their tender years. Their parents are, according to Chen, often unable to stand seeing their children suffer, and rush off home with them. "Those who stay behind have the chance of being champions," says the chief coach.

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Cheng's road to Beijing began in central China, here in Hubei Province, a bleak industrial region where her father worked as a shipping clerk and her mother toiled in a tire factory.

She was born in 1988, an only child in a nation with a one-child policy. From the beginning, her parents say, she looked like a boy, so they treated her like one. Her father, a disciplinarian who had studied martial arts, pushed her from an early age, even pressing her to do calisthenics every morning before primary school classes began.

"I trained her like a military soldier," said her father, Cheng Ligao, who now owns a shop in Huangshi. "She followed me step by step and I shouted to her, 'One-two, one-two...."'
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At one point, Cheng pleaded with her parents to let her quit and return home. "We asked her to hold on because we had invested so much and lived so bitterly," her mother said.

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Originally posted by Elmer's Glue:
Is that supposed to look like tiny gibberish?

That one girl must feel terrible. It was entirely her fault that our women's gymnastics team lost the gold.

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Originally posted by katharina:
When the 16-and-over rule start? I seem to remember an American gymnast who was only 14.

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In fact, it was a failed student that turned to Christianity and started the Taiping Rebellion, thats how brutal and twisted the pressures could be in that kind of environment.

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The eldest child of a relatively prosperous peasant family, Mao Zedong was born on December 26, 1893, in a village called Shaoshan in Xiangtan County (湘潭縣), Hunan province. His ancestors migrated from Jiangxi province during the Ming Dynasty, and had settled there as farmers. His father was Mao Jen-sheng, a peasant farmer. Wen Chi-mei, his mother, was a very devout Buddhist. Due to his family's relative wealth, his father was able to send him to school and later to Changsha for more advanced schooling.

During the 1911 Revolution, Mao enlisted as a soldier in a local regiment in Hunan which fought on the side of the revolutionaries. Once the Qing Dynasty had been effectively toppled, Mao left the army and returned to school.[7]

After graduating from the First Provincial Normal School of Hunan in 1918, Mao traveled with Professor Yang Changji, his high school teacher and future father-in-law, to Beijing during the May Fourth Movement in 1919.

Professor Yang held a faculty position at Peking University. Because of Yang's recommendation, Mao worked as an assistant librarian at the University with Li Dazhao as curator. Mao registered as a part-time student at Beijing University and attended many lectures and seminars by famous intellectuals, such as Chen Duxiu, Hu Shi, Qian Xuantong, etc. During his stay in Beijing, he read as much as possible, and through his readings, he was introduced to Communist theories. He married Yang Kaihui, Professor Yang's daughter who was his fellow student, despite an existing marriage arranged by his father at home. Mao never acknowledged this marriage. In October 1930, the Guomindang (GMD) captured Yang Kaihui with her son, Anying. The GMD imprisoned them both and Anying, then, was later sent to his relatives after the GMD killed his mother, Yang Kaihui. At this time , Mao was living with a co-worker, He Zizhen, a 17 year old girl from Yongxing, Jiangxi.[8] Mao turned down an opportunity to study in France because he firmly believed that China's problems could be studied and resolved only within China. Unlike his contemporaries, Mao concentrated on studying the peasant majority of China's population.

On July 23, 1921, Mao, age 27, attended the first session of the National Congress of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai. Two years later, he was elected as one of the five commissars of the Central Committee of the Party during the third Congress session.

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Given all that, we should be proud of the silver. And if the silver is the price we pay for the fact that our gymnasts are 1) the proper age and 2) actually know who their parents are, I'll take the silver proudly.

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Originally posted by Elmer's Glue:
I'm guessing it is because there just aren't any other good events for them to compete in. What would you suggest they add, Ribbon Twirling?

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For the gymnasts/parent's of I have a question.

Why are there only four events for women's gymnastics but six for men? I get that the differences between men and women lead to different events but why not have more events for the women?

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I'm guessing it is because there just aren't any other good events for them to compete in.

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Vault looks hard to learn though, I mean, I can't imagine how a girl or guy feels the first time they have to just go for it and flies through the air. It also seems like there is a high risk of injury from botched attempts.

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Yeah, there is a certain amount of fear to overcome the first time you run headlong down a runway at top speed and hurl yourself at a stationary object!

What surprised me about vault is how technical it all is. I mean, it looks like you just run and hit the springboard (at this point I'm not talking about the vaults where they do a round off and go on the table backward). I had no idea there were marks on the vault runway for each gymnast - a "number" based on a tape measure that is beside the runway. Gymnasts always start in the exact same place - they run the exact same number of steps so they can hit the springboard on the same step and with the correct foot extended.

My daughter's coach changed her lead foot and she was unable to vault for a long while - she'd run down the runway, then stop because it felt wrong -she couldn't get her head around leading with the other foot. She finally got it though.

The good news is the new vault table is much safer than the old horse they used to use. Injuries in vault have gone way down. This table is shaped so that collisions aren't nearly as catastrophic as they were before.

Still, it's a difficult event to be sure. Much more precision involved than I imagined. Of course, my daughter is nowhere near the level that does the round-off back handspring vaults - that one is far more technical than the front handspring ones she does now.

They train vault very gradually, they start off just vaulting on to stacks of mats, and only later move up to using the table. When they do, their coach is always right there to stop them if they are headed into the table wrong, and able to spot them in the handspring over the top of the vault. They often land in "the pit" a sunken area of floor filled with really soft, squishy mats. They don't move them to the harder mats until they've got it down pat.

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Vault looks hard to learn though, I mean, I can't imagine how a girl or guy feels the first time they have to just go for it and flies through the air. It also seems like there is a high risk of injury from botched attempts.

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Yeah, there is a certain amount of fear to overcome the first time you run headlong down a runway at top speed and hurl yourself at a stationary object!

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Originally posted by Samprimary:
I love all this controversy with all of these Chinese gymnasts who are all obviously 16 years old (why would you ever suspect otherwise) and absolutely no younger than that, definitely not 13.

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