World championship figure skater Jessica Shuran Yu, who was born, raised and trained in China, claimed she suffered years of horrific abuse inside the brutal Chinese regime. It has also been reported for the first time at the Winter Olympics, China will be using DNA testing to select athletes for their physical attributes. Communist Party-backed sports officials ruthlessly select and train competitors from an early age. Young Chinese kids take off their ice skates after an indoor training session at the Taoshan District Speed Skating School in Qitaihe city, northeast Chinas Heilongjiang province, 18 February 2014. Once enlisted in the state-backed training camps, the youngsters are expected to sacrifice everything and train for glory under the Chinese flag. Tests for selection see kids being given brutal challenges such as press-ups, endurance running and bench presses that prioritize overall strength over specific skills.Īnd the elite pupils are shipped off to China’s National Training Center – a sprawl of buildings in a Beijing suburb patrolled by armed guards. The state sends out scouts to hunt for tens of thousands of children for full-time training at more than 2,000 government-run sports schools. The system is rooted in the Soviet model, which saw sport as a way of attracting prestige for the Communist system. The country approaches sport with a level of precision, planning, and ruthlessness usually reserved for the battlefield.Īlthough China’s demanding state sports system has attracted criticism, it has also made it one of the most successful Olympic nations since it returned to the games in 1980. With a colossal population of 1.4 billion, China has a sprawling state-backed operation that puts young athletes through brutal training regiments to prepare them for the world stage. I found a naked man in my trunk who'd been hiding for three daysįive people killed during avalanche at ski hotspot in Austriaįrom humiliating punishments to invasive DNA testing, China’s prowess on the Olympic stage has come at a hefty price to thousands of children.Ĭommunist Party-backed sports officials ruthlessly select and train competitors from an early age – with children as young as four being enlisted to train for glory at the Olympics. Massive 13-foot alligator shot and killed by hunter

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