Chinese gymnast : a champion’s school | M6 | 66 minutes

In China, 5 million children and teenager exhaust each day in a single objective: to obtain the gold medal to the Olympic Games. We filmed the way future gymnastics champions, « made in China” are made in specialized schools where are gathered the most gifted children.Selected since the nursery school, they train every day. 3 to 4 hours of limbering up exercises, of musculation, of endurance, which come to be added to Chinese and maths classes. An intensive training six days out of seven, doubled of a drastic diet.To succeed, children keep in memory the example of their elder become stars, like Liu Xiang which, after having beaten the record of the world of 110 metres hurdles, gets hundreds of thousands of euros by making commercials for the biggest Western brands.In the spirit of communist China, the success of its athletes shows the supremacy of the “Chinese national thought”. But official propaganda choose to overlook on all the children who, after having devoted their youth to the competition, give up and try, as best they can, to to return to the traditional education system.