American Chinese gymnasts -
- Come from a very tiny population pool, less than 20 million, even counting pro-rated proportion of adoptees. Chinas base pool is over 50 times larger.
- Come from an even smaller pool of people who volunteer their children for this sport. The Chinese state system multiplies that pool size by many times, how many its impossible to jusdge, but combined with the population base it must be a factor of hundreds.
- American Chinese kids are raised under at least partially American cultural constraints. Their parents are very unlikely to completely abdicate their responsibilities to the coaches and the state. Deliberate malnutrition and retarded development are much less likely to edge towards extremes.
The Chinese state, to put it bluntly, is far more capable of finding freaks of nature and molding them for a specific purpose.
This is not to say the Chinese aren’t cheating. They are perfectly capable of doing that and certainly will if given a low-risk opportunity.
“The Chinese state, to put it bluntly, is far more capable of finding freaks of nature and molding them for a specific purpose.
This is not to say the Chinese aren’t cheating. They are perfectly capable of doing that and certainly will if given a low-risk opportunity.”
So now the argument isn’t that these girls are typical teens and we americans just don’t understand asians?
Now the argument is that these girls are freaks of nature?
That still does not explain the lack of maturity in their dance on floor. If they truly had been receiving dance training for many years to compete at the olympic level, the first chinese girl up on floor would not have looked so pitiful.
Does you “freak of nature” theory also apply to baby teeth?
It isn’t only Beijing - but in Athens as well that the baby teeth were noted by other countries.
Thank you. Many here simply will not let their own prejudices and blinders be lifted. Travel the world, and you’ll see that people age and mature at different rates based upon culture, economy, and race.
But apparently many here believe if it’s different from what we see in the US it must be cheating or doping or something illegal.
China’s got plenty to answer for about this issue from the documentation about ages, published in past articles. But to use physical appearance is highly misguided.
Xie xie wo peng you,
Da Mao