The Truth About China’s Olympics Kids [Photos]

China has registered some impressive wins in the 2012 London  Olympics. But it wasn’t luck or mere hard work and dedication.  The process starts at an early age with children barely old enough to go to school. These gymnastics kids train most of the day,  every day, to become agile, strong, and fast enough for the  international Olympics. Eventually, only a handful of them actually make it to the competitions. As the following next photo series  shows, however, said process looks like torture to those li’l things.  One must wonder if Olympic Gold is truly that much worth it for  the Chinese. I can actually remember that for some odd reason my mother  once decided to take me to gymnastics training when I was  six or seven. It was so painful while the trainers were somewhat sadistic, that I only went twice and dropped the idea. Check this slightly disturbing collection to see what those  Chinese niños have to endure before we comfortably get to  watch them on our TV screens. Sigh.

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China is training fish now, what's next? 1.4 billion people, a billion consists of one thousand million by the way and then add 400 million to that. Yes, this is Big Red China. The same China that blocked the word "Egypt" and "Revolution" from its search engines starting the end of January 2011 when things were getting heatedly uglier throughout Egypt and communication has been shut down by the old, stubborn regime before being toppled on Feb 11th.

The Great Firewall of China is, in fact, the nickname of their highly sophisticated internet-content filtering system. They actually have more than sixty Internet regulations. Can you imagine censoring the internet for 1.4 billion people in 2010? I can't really.

No wonder their communist authorities are afraid from their own people; a revolution in a country with such huge population would be crazy. Thinking about it got me dizzy. A mental image we only see in movies, when the camera shows endless lines, rows and columns of animated soldiers. An infinity of shortish Chinese soldiers ― all digitally identical.

I believe that if such a mammoth uprising took place for real the effects would be devastating. Because freeing yourself from all this control might very well need a whole lot of madness with cataclysmic blood shedding. There are so many Chinese in Canada and pretty much everywhere else. In Egypt, they go door to door visiting rural areas to sell matches and pens. I guess with this rate, there's a Chinese person everywhere, doing everything all the time.


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The Truth About China’s Olympics Kids [Photos]