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No, xxvinnehxx, you're pretty accurate.

he was being sarcastic you dumb motherfucker.

I seen a picture of a 50 year old looking dude, pressing his foot down against a 7 year old Chinese girls knees, till they are bent in a way that's preferable. She was crying hysterically, and the trainer just had the coldest look in his eyes..

Oh, and child abuse is common in China. Most kids there get beat simply because their parents had a shitty day.

I guess gold wasn't good enough for him.

No sure why you got reds, because that is correct in cases.
But you can't forget that with China, a country with a population of over 1.3 billion, just under a fifth of the world's population, where being a successful athlete means the difference between eating and starving.

In the UK if you earn a gold medal in the Olympics you're made for life, and with silver/bronze medals you will still be wealthy and remembered.

In China I doubt one gold on it's own even gets you much recognition because of the sheer amount they get. And I'm sure as far as the Government and people are concerned, you're a gold medal athlete or nothing.

this is true, and to be honest, when getting a bronze, you leave with a win, when getting silver, you leave with a loss

Tom Daley was so happy with his bronze because hes only 18 years old and hes had a rough year with his father dying. I believe hes extremely happy because of everything hes overcome and finally won a medal and it proves he has a great future ahead of him

No, they are having a civilized conversation.



like we should be.

they're*. Nevertheless, I'm agreed with you

oh my god thank you, someone that's actually intelligent enough to understand and doesn't just follow what everyone else says.

tom daley, no 1 diver in the world at this moment, didnt expect to get a medal...

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Is The First Roser

>Olympics are supposed to be fun for athletes
Uhm... that wasn't even the case in the ancient Greece. Greek culture was very competitive in all its aspects, intellectual or physical, and the epitome of this was the Olympics where people pushed themselves to the limit in order to stand on the highest step of the dais. Nowadays, it's the same, only multiplied several times and on international scale. Obviously it's not just China that pressures their athletes to go to extreme lengths in order to win, though they may be the harshest among the harsh.
TL;DR Olympics were never athlete-friendly fun to begin with