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Originally posted by Jyll:
I was a bit surprised when I watched the story about Jin Yang. She was recruited into the potentially Olympics training team while she was still in childcare?! I wonder if other countries do the same. But it seems like her whole future has been pre-planned for her from when she's still in her diapers. Which is I guess both an honour (from a country perspective) but quite sad too from a freedom perspective.


At least she made it somewhere in life. You or I will probably never get anywhere close to competing for the Olympics hey? heh. That said, I'd actually be more interested in what happens to those who don't make it. Will they just "fade from existence"?
 
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I was a bit surprised when I watched the story about Jin Yang. She was recruited into the potentially Olympics training team while she was still in childcare?! I wonder if other countries do the same. But it seems like her whole future has been pre-planned for her from when she's still in her diapers. Which is I guess both an honour (from a country perspective) but quite sad too from a freedom perspective.
 
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