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China’s Obsession with Olympic Gold
Wednesday, August 8, 2012 17:18
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China continues to lead the Olympic medal tally with 19 golds. Its success at recent games—particularly on home ground during the 2008 Beijing Games—has set high expectations for gold in 2012. Deputy chef de mission of the Chinese Olympic delegation in London, Xiao Tian, said that people would abuse the team if they won fewer medals in London than they did in Beijing. The athletes are therefore under extreme pressure to win gold. For Liu Xiang, the celebrated Chinese hurdler who won gold in 2004, the pressure may just be too great for him. He has again crashed out in London as he did in Beijing in 2008. A Chinese weightlifter who won a silver medal broke down on national TV saying that he had “disgraced the motherland.” And there are debates in China over whether only gold medals count. Many netizens were unhappy about an incident in London when Chinese reporters swarmed to interview a Chinese gold medalist in shooting and completely ignored the bronze medalist who is also Chinese. They have called on the media to pay more attention to silver and bronze medal winners. However, in spite of the pressure to win gold, the behavior of the Chinese women's badminton duo, who was expelled from the London Games for allegedly gaming the system to improve their gold medal chances, has been decried in China as “pathetic” and “shameful”. For more news and videos visit ☛ english.ntdtv.com Follow us on Twitter ☛ http Add us on Facebook ☛ on.fb.me
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