Deliberate malnutrition - that could very well be - there are few constraints on the Chinese coaches.
“Deliberate malnutrition - that could very well be - there are few constraints on the Chinese coaches.”
girls who are being starved are not going to have stamina to get through floor routines or bar routines.
Their bones would get brittle and break easily.
They may make it through brief periods of time, but not hold up under long competition season - through world championships, olympic trials, and then the olympics.