{"id":141253,"date":"2012-08-06T12:57:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T19:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=141253"},"modified":"2012-08-06T12:57:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T19:57:49","slug":"netizen-voices-olympic-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2012\/08\/netizen-voices-olympic-insanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Netizen Voices: Olympic Insanity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Chinese paper called Zhou Jun\u2019s defeat \u201cdisgraceful.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

What does Olympic obsession do for\u2014or to\u2014the athletes subjected to it? And what does it gain the average citizen? China\u2019s intermittent lead in the medal count speaks to the strength of its \u201cnational system\u201d (\u4e3e\u56fd\u4f53\u5236) for training elite sportsmen, a Soviet-style<\/a><\/strong> program of gruelling training. Some netizens want to know what good the national system does the country as a whole. From Weibo:<\/p>\n

LittleCloudDing<\/strong>: What kind of Chinese person with a brain would consider the number of gold medals China wins some huge deal? Unless you have some connection with the Olympics. A country with a nationalized athletics program is really a country that raises athletes like livestock to train on your behalf. They take money that should be spent improving everyone\u2019s physical fitness and spend it on a chosen few. The only problem is, can someone really exercise for you? Not to mention, the nationalized athletics program is a brutal affair, dirty and corrupt behind the scenes.<\/p>\n

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Bido_q<\/strong>: The French say China is too strong, that we take home all the gold medals, while they are too weak. The problem is, when you look at the physical fitness and the lifestyle of the average male [Chinese] exchange student, the dark side of physical education in our nation rears its head. I\u2019m a classic, skinny example. The only thing that taking home all these gold medals can prove is that Chinese are not physically inferior to other people. It\u2019s just sad that most of the rabble<\/a> don\u2019t even have access to a nutritious lunch from a young age, let alone comprehensive physical education.<\/p>\n

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According to censorship directives leaked to CDT, Chinese media are no longer permitted to report or comment on the issue of the national system<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Netizens also question the measure of Chinese Olympians\u2019 success. Some commented on the stark contrast in the treatment of two female Chinese shooting medalists, Yi Siling<\/strong><\/a> and Yu Dan<\/strong><\/a>. Yi took home gold and glory; Yu, only bronze:<\/p>\n

HandsInPockets<\/strong>: Two Chinese athletes differ only by their medals: Yi Siling won gold and Yu Dan won bronze. But their treatment by the media couldn\u2019t have been more different. A congratulatory message from the State Council didn\u2019t even mention Yu Dan. CCTV didn\u2019t air a single shot of Yu\u2019s face. After a reporter finished interviewing Yi he thought of Yu, but she had already quietly left the building. This country has no understanding of respect. You\u2019re not great unless you bring home the gold.<\/p>\n

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ACertainS<\/strong>: The reporter conducting interviews seemingly forgot about bronze-winner Yu Dan, who had been standing off to the side. This sweet, quiet girl understood what was going on and quietly left. Yu Dan, your hard work on behalf of this country\u2019s fragile sense of vanity would be appreciated just as much as that of the champion even if you hadn\u2019t made it into the finals.<\/p>\n

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MorningNews<\/strong>: Yi Siling\u2019s Hometown Lights Hour of Firecrackers; Only Two People Greet Bronze Medal Winner at Airport: Just how much difference is there between gold, silver and bronze? For Yi Siling, the winner of the first gold medal of the London Olympics, the local government back home set off an amazing firecracker display. Some say it lasted more than an hour. But bronze medal winner Li Xuanxu, who also hails from Hunan Province, was greeted at the Beijing airport today only by her mother and aunt.<\/p>\n

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One reporter reminisced about a similar Olympic shaming:<\/p>\n

bijian1972<\/strong>: This image is deeply engraved into my reporter’s memory: In the meeting room of a county-level hotel, a dozen or more reporters and athletics department officials surrounded the elderly parents of an Olympic hopeful. After the athlete failed to win a prize, the room emptied in a flash, and the elderly pair was left there with nothing but desolation. No one even saw the old folks back home.<\/p>\n

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Yu may be thankful for the lack of attention. After failing three times to complete a lift, Zhou Jun\u2019s defeat was labelled by The Metropolis Times<\/em> \u201cChinese women\u2019s weightlifting\u2019s most disgraceful failure ever.\u201d While the paper later apologized<\/a><\/strong>, Zhou has found the most support in social media:<\/p>\n

ShenChen<\/strong>: It\u2019s disgraceful, alright! But the disgrace does not belong to this 17-year-old girl who gave her complete effort. The disgrace is the country\u2019s perverted obsession with the Olympics. The disgrace is the ease with which we can disregard our principles. The disgrace is the institutionalized pressure felt by those who come in second place to apologize. The disgrace is how a champion\u2019s praise of other athletes is completely ignored. The disgrace is that we get off on conflating our dominance in sport with the strength and prosperity of our country.<\/p>\n

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CaiYaoqi<\/strong>: Yesterday, the Taiwanese delegation finally took home its first medal. 21-year-old Shu-Ching Hsu<\/a><\/strong> won silver after first lifting 96 kg, then 123 kg, for a total of 219 kg. For her outstanding performance, she was awarded NT$7 mil by her country! (In Taiwan, winning a silver medal is a national honor, but on the mainland, taking home a silver is worth crying about and is considered letting down your country and your people.)<\/p>\n

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Upon winning silver, male lifter Wu Jingbiao<\/a><\/strong> sobbed to a reporter, \u201cI have disgraced my country, I have disgraced the Chinese national weightlifting team, and I have disgraced all those who care about me!\u201d The reporter stepped on camera to console Wu.<\/p>\n

Gold is no guarantee of happiness, however. Some of China\u2019s gold medalists have sacrificed nearly everything, especially family:
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

MorningNews<\/strong>: \u201cLi Xueying<\/a>\u2019s Tearful Father: \u2018We Haven\u2019t Seen Each Other for Two Years\u201d: When Li Xueying won the women\u2019s 58kg-class weightlifting gold medal, her father, who had been watching in the audience, was moved to tears. When a reporter asked how he planned to celebrate with his daughter, he choked up, saying, \u201cI just want to see her immediately. We haven\u2019t seen each other for two years! She\u2019s my daughter, after all. She\u2019s my pride and joy!<\/p>\n

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Still others did not even know what kind of sacrifices were made on their behalf. Wu Minxia<\/a><\/strong> learned only after she won gold in female doubles diving that her mother has been diagnosed with breast cancer and that her maternal grandparents have both passed away. Wu’s parents struggled with these secrets for years. Male diver Qin Kai<\/a><\/strong>, who trained in Beijing far from his family in Shaanxi Province, did not know about the deaths of his cousin, uncle, and two grandfathers until 2006\u2014his grandfathers passed away in 2002 and 2005, and his aunt and cousin were killed in a car accident in 2000. After winning the 2006 World Cup, Qin told his father, \u201cIf my grandfathers, my uncle and my cousin were here to see me win, I think they would be happy. I want to give the prize money to Auntie to buy a house. Do you have any objections?\u201d His father couldn\u2019t say no. Qin won gold in the men\u2019s 3m springboard competition in Beijing and again in London.<\/p>\n

More on China\u2019s \u201cfetish for first\u201d from CDT<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Via SneezeBloid<\/a>. Translation by Little Bluegill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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