Höchstleistungen in London: China quält seine Kinder zu Olympia-Gold

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Torture or training? Inside the brutal Chinese gymnasium where the country's future Olympic stars are beaten into shape


Nanning Gymnasium in Nanning, China, is one of many ruthless training camps in ChinHere children, some as young as five, battle to complete the demanding routines on bars, rings, and mats

PUBLISHED: 14:44 GMT, 1 August 2012 | UPDATED: 16:41 GMT, 1 August 2012

Her face etched with pain, a child trains for Olympic glory while her gymnastics trainer stands on her legs.
The cartoon space rockets and animal astronauts on her tiny red leotard are a stark and powerful reminder of this little girl's tender age as she trains as hard as any adult athlete in the Western world.

Nanning Gymnasium in Nanning, China, is one of many ruthless training camps across the country to which parents send their children to learn how to be champions.

Hard training: Her face etched with pain, a child trains for Olympic glory while her gymnastics trainer stands on her legs.


But while training techniques appear extreme to Western eyes, they provide an insight into why China's athletes at London 2012 seem so easily able to swim, dive, lift and shoot their way to victory.
Gymnastic stars are known for starting at an incredibly early age, and this group of children appear no different as they battled to complete the demanding routines on bars, rings, and mats.

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Boys and girls who looked no older than five or six-years-old were tasked with swinging on beams, hanging from pairs of rings and bounding across floor mats during the physically strenuous training sessions.

Ruthless: Boys and girls who looked no older than five or six-years-old were tasked with swinging on beams, hanging from pairs of rings and bounding across floor mats during the physically strenuous training sessions

Growing strong: Nanning Gymnasium in Nanning, China, is one of many ruthless training camps across the country to which parents send their children to learn how to be champions

Going for gold: While training techniques appear extreme to Western eyes, they provide an insight into why China's athletes at London 2012 seem so easily able to swim, dive, lift and shoot their way to victory

Stretchy: Gymnastic stars are known for starting at an incredibly early age, and this group of children appear no different as they battled to complete the demanding routines on bars, rings, and mats

The youngsters at the same training school will be hoping to emulate the success of 16-year-old swimming sensation Ye Shewin, who glided into the record books on Saturday night.
Only last January harrowing photographs were posted on the internet showing Chinese children crying in pain as they were put to work.
In case they had forgotten why they were there, a large sign on the wall reminded them. ‘GOLD’ it said simply.
Charges are often taught by rote that their mission in life is to beat the Americans and all-comers to the top of the podium.

24/7 routine: A child stretches at home during a gymnastics training session in Nanning, China

To the top: Charges are often taught by rote that their mission in life is to beat the Americans and all-comers to the top of the podium

No nonsense: The trainers are tough on the children who go through rigorous training schedules

Home time: Children wait for their parents after completing a gymnastics training session in Nanning

Ye Shiwen astounded the swimming world by knocking more than a second off the world record for the 400m individual medley

Mission accomplished: Miss Ye poses with her gold medal on the podium. Ye insists that her 'results come from hard work and training'

Winning at all costs: Children are put through their paces doing punishing exercises to toughen them up

Children are trained at camps where the word 'gold' is hung on the wall to make them focus on success

Young boys and girls are put through their paces at the Chen Jinglun Sports School, the alma mater of Ye Shiwen

The school also trained Sun Yang, who won the 400m freestyle at London 2012

Ye's team-mate, 23-year-old Lu Ying, this week attacked China's grindingly repetitive coaching regime

A group of young boys await their turn in the pool

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Ich frage mich , ist es das Wert?

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[Ilan]

Ich würde ja sagen andere Länder, andere Sitten. Aber auf zwei Bilder sieht das echt zu krass aus... Sowas ist nicht wert, man kann ja strenge Trainer haben, das ist normal, aber sie grad foltern ist nicht mehr normal.

Toll, man hat Olympia-Gold, aber man ist seelisch geschädigt.

 

[Posa]

Immernoch besser als zu stoffen

 

[ChaosInvocation]

Ja klar, nur weil die Chinesen das Wort Disziplin verstehen und auch durchsetzen sind sie jetzt wieder böse und Kinderquäler.
Dieses verweichlichte Europa ist echt zum Kotzen, wie soll man denn sonst gut werden?

 

[Kiqa]

Ja klar, nur weil die Chinesen das Wort Disziplin verstehen und auch durchsetzen sind sie jetzt wieder böse und Kinderquäler.
Dieses verweichlichte Europa ist echt zum Kotzen, wie soll man denn sonst gut werden?

durch quälen wird man nie gut, eher dramatisiert würde ich sagen..

 

[ChaosInvocation]

Wer sagt denn dass die gequält werden? Im Sport bringt es nichts immer in seinen Möglichkeiten zu bleiben, man muss den roten Bereich erreichen.

 

[Kiqa]

Wer sagt denn dass die gequält werden? Im Sport bringt es nichts immer in seinen Möglichkeiten zu bleiben, man muss den roten Bereich erreichen.

schau dir mal die bilder an, und dann die komenatere und den artikel lesen bevor du antwortest danke..

 

[ChaosInvocation]

Bist du auch so ein Sozialpädagoge, der alles mit Reden klären will? Ohne Disziplin kein sportlicher Erfolg, so einfach ist das.

 

[Averoff]

Man wird auf Perfektion getrimmt, mit Erfolg wie man sieht. China ist glaube ich jetzt seit 3-4 Olympiaden immer erster was den Medaillienspiegel angeht

 

[Lilith]

Ja gut

Boys and girls who looked no older than five or six-years-old were tasked with swinging on beams, hanging from pairs of rings and bounding across floor mats during the physically strenuous training sessions.

Das kenne ich auch. Ich meine, mir ist kein Trainer auf die Beine gestiegen. Und so etwas wie "punishing exercises" kenne ich auch nicht. Das ist krass und sollte verboten werden. Aber einen schon für kleine Anfänger rigorosen und intensiven Trainingsplan. Uns haben sie auch etwa bei den Stretchübungen so "nach"gedehnt, dass man auch richtig heulen musste und geschrien hat. Kindgerecht sicher nicht. Aber gerade Sportarten wie Turnen, Eiskunstlaufen auf allerhöchstem Niveau gehen nicht ohne Schinderei. Ob von zeitlichen oder "inhaltlichen" Ansprüchen her. Und auch von den Verletzungen, die sich da fast jeder auch schon als Kind mal einfängt, wenn man mal am Barren daneben greift, falsch übers Pferd kommt und und und.