Not even China’s sporting excellence can pass without comment in the United States, as a highly critical article in the New York Times on Thursday demonstrated. It’s typical of the hysteria culture that’s now rife in America.
Tingmao Shi and Han Wang of Team China pose with the gold medals on the podium during the medal ceremony for the Women’s 3m Springboard Finals
Tom Fowdy is a British writer and analyst of politics and international relations with a primary focus on East Asia.30 Jul, 2021 14:40 Get short URL
On Thursday, the NYT published an astonishing article titled ‘The Chinese Sports Machine’s Single Goal: The Most Golds At Any Cost’. The piece effectively claimed China had rigged the Olympics for political purposes, accusing it of “putting tens of thousands of children in government-run training schools” and funnelling young athletes into “less prominent sports that Beijing hopes to dominate.”
The prize? To earn as many gold medals as possible, in the process scoring political points and bringing glory to their country.
And no, it was not a parody.
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