Look inside China’s secretive Olympic training camps

With 400,000 children in special Olympic schools, China has the biggest mass recruitment and training programme in the world. Will it translate to medals in Rio 2016?

[raina]

"My biggest sacrifice is my childhood happiness."
wow that's really heavy

[anniep]

“I want my mummy (mommy) to live forever”

aww, that melted my heart! c: she seems like the sweetest girl ever!

[DiminikaDrezins]

Incase any of you were wondering, Gao Lei competed in Rio and won a bronze medal. :) I'm actually so proud right now.

[lilyli]

the translation is so off... the coach said they've been training for so long so they want a chance to perform and show their skills....he never said winning medals are athletes main goals

[joelmonge]

they're so humble though. he said "It'd be an honor to be as good as them" when he spoke of black american athletes. I see no problem in it.

[GG-jfvq]

If she becomes a champion her mom will buy her a tablet? I feel kinda spoiled

[mihilranathunga]

that chinese athlete, he is so wise even though he doesn't consider himself to be..

[justanaverageguy]

Meanwhile In India we have sports period once in a week . that too maths teacher takes it to complete portions. 😒

[imannelamothe]

awwww she said so her mom can live forever .... her smile is beatiful im sure thats enough to keep her mom living an everlasting life

[seesnails]

This young girl wants a medal so her mom can give her a tablet, and I gave my kids tablets just so I can take them away as punishment when they misbehave. I feel like a failure in life.

[andykharisma]

We have this type "secretive training camps" all over the world it's called School

[juve]

why is it titled the "secretive" when the children and coaches are so openly talking about their dreams and issues? how can you blame people for not being open the next time?

[craftysaurus]

"secretive"
3 million views

[Rena-xnsx]

Looks like a normal olympics training camp to me. What's with the sad music and tone of the narrator, as if it's some kind of abuse! Other gymnasts start training just as young and go through a very focused training to become olympians too.

[orangemoonglows]

i don't understand why people think this is child abuse. in the us, girls start doing gymnastics at a very young age
and the good ones who become olympians are training just like this - they leave their families to train and are homeschooled. it's just not done as part of a state system.

[fufu]

I watch this after a 14 year old kid got perfect scores in Olympics Diving. Winning gold.

[nick]

Why does the west always use these weird words to describe us? "Secret Olympic Camp", as if it's some sort of lab to develop artificial cyborgs for competition.

[nonhnskr]

"I was chosen for training at age 7 because my academic performance was poor." Legend has that he scored a 1500 on the SAT (in English) at age 6.

[LuvThyMind]

Child abuse? Ridiculous. Sitting through school for 8 hours/day is child abuse. As a child, I would have loved to spend the entire day playing sports.

[sanaksanandan]

"secretive" training camp. Where you can shoot video of all trainees, and interview them, and put it on you tube.