Forging of the Mandarin mermaid

Mail Online ^ | 8/1/2012 | David Jones

[Former Fetus]

Full title: Forging of the Mandarin mermaid: How Chinese children are taken away from their families and brutalised into future Olympians

Ye Shiwen-Forging of the Mandarin mermaid: How Chinese children are brutalised into future Olympians

Watching the new ‘Mandarin Mermaid’ glide to another suspiciously easy victory yesterday - the prelude to what will doubtless be her second gold medal of these Games - my thoughts returned to the disturbing interview I conducted with another swimming sensation many years ago.

Just like China’s Ye Shiwen, East German Petra Schneider had astonished the world in winning the 400 metres medley - this time at the 1980 Moscow Olympics - producing a performance of such awesome power that her rivals (including Britain’s Sharron Davis, who won silver) seemed to be lesser mortals.

And as with 16-year-old Ye in London on Saturday night, so striking was Schneider’s superiority over young women who had trained equally long and hard that many observers wondered how she could possibly have been so much stronger, fitter and faster.

[Former Fetus]

I knew that in China people don't have a choice once the state decides what you are going to be. But I was not prepared for these pics.

[dfwgator]

Judging by what happened to many of those former East German Women athletes, those Chinese athletes have a very bleak future.

[Perdogg]

There were rumors that Yao Ming was given growth hormons.

[Former Fetus]

It breaks my heart. I have a son who wants to run the marathon in the Olympics. He’s been running since 6th grade and we’ve been told more than once that he is gifted. I can’t even begin to think what would have happened to him in a country like China. An Olympic medal is NOT worth ruining children’s lives.

[July4]

The average Chinese man is 5'4” tall, and the average Chinese woman is 5'1” tall. Obviously, some are taller and some are shorter. However, a Chinese female swimmer’s long limbs, large hands, and a height of 5'8” makes you wonder about the possible use of growth hormones

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Watching the new ‘Mandarin Mermaid’ glide to another suspiciously easy victory yesterday***

Just following after Chairman MAO.

[longtermmemmory]

I wonder if they just extended the arms and legs using one of those halo devices.

(see movie Gataca)

It is physical and not hormonal so there is no test for it.

[longtermmemmory]

I wonder if they just extended the arms and legs using one of those halo devices.

(see movie Gataca)

It is physical and not hormonal so there is no test for it.

[Persevero]

A successful Olympics needs participating countries to be humane.

China and North Korea, to name a couple, are proveably NOT humane to their citizens.

Requiring that all competitors be adults might help. But still, they could be physically manipulated as children.

Maybe say you can’t participate if your country is on the list of human right violaters.

Then again that can get political, we’d probably be on it if we don’t take away capital punishment or let men marry goats.