Hi everyone, this is Klaus.
China has always claimed to be a big and strong country,
a great sports nation.
If you look at the results of international competitions alone,
China can really be called a global sporting power.
Since China joined the Olympics in the 1980s,
Chinese athletes have dominated the arena.
China even hosted the Beijing Olympics in 2008,
and achieved the highest number of gold medals.
But does that make China a great sports nation?
These so-called medals have nothing to do with the people.
In fact, sports are not taken seriously in China.
China's per capita sports area is only 1.66 square meters.
The per capita sports area in the US is 16 square meters.
Japan, despite a higher population density, has reached 19 square meters per capita.
Also, most sports venues in China are not open to the public.
As netizen Lyn Misery said,
“Since junior high school, I’ve loved playing basketball and watching the NBA.
One day, my friend and I rode bicycles around looking for a basketball court.
We tried several places. None would let us in.
Even the security guard of our school wouldn't let us in to play basketball.
I was so angry at that time. China claims to be a great nation,
and yet I couldn’t even find a place to play basketball.
From that moment on I've realized that
not even an inch of land in this country belongs to me.”
In today’s video,
we will look at the Tokyo Olympics, and expose China’s lies about being a sports power.
I hope you enjoy this video.
Recently, the Tokyo Olympics
have shown us all kinds of superb sports
and amazing athletes from all over the world.
Netizens have highlighted the exotic beauty
of female athletes from various countries.
However, Chinese female athletes look neither male nor female.
Just look at the women’s basketball team, and the weightlifting champion who has won a gold medal.
Also, look at the 4*100 female athletes of the Chinese national team.
Many netizens suspect that they are transgender.
There are still many restrictions for transgender people in the Olympics.
The Chinese Sports Commission also issued a statement,
saying that the female relay team members are all genuinely women.
I believe that.
Chinese transgender people have never been in sports events publicly.
Some male characteristics on their bodies
might’ve been caused by their consumption of male hormones (leading to larger female clitorises).
Our suspicion is entirely based on history.
Sun Yang, the infamous Chinese swimmer who broke the world record,
made the news in 2014 for using illicit drugs.
The Chinese swimming team is notorious for using illicit drugs.
Their athletes get caught almost every year.
In addition, many Chinese weightlifting Olympic champions have been suspended and their gold medals cancelled.
Let’s also not forget the Chinese long-distance running team involved in the Ma Incident that shook the whole country.
Ma Junren was the coach of China's Liaoning women's long-distance running team in the 1990s.
He served as deputy director of Liaoning Provincial Sports Bureau, deputy director of Liaoning Sports Commission, etc.
He led the women’s long-distance running team and won most of the gold medals at the time,
setting the world record many times, putting his name on the map.
However, Ma had been forcing his team to take lots of illegal drugs,
and conducting mental and physical abuse.
Later, Ma was exposed by the media and was blacklisted.
Nevertheless, Ma got away with it, and officially retired in 2004.
He is currently the chairman of the Chinese Tibetan Mastiff Association,
with a large collection of valuable cultural relics in his home,
enjoying a blissful life in his old age in a villa on the outskirts of Shenyang.
The use of stimulants, hormones and other illegal drugs
is systemic in the shady Chinese sports industry,
and that is just the tip of the iceberg.
Sports are supposed to benefit our body and mind, and help us stay fit.
But in autocratic China, sports administration is a Whole Nation system,
a management model supported by a communist planned economy,
where the country has all the power to mobilize resources,
where professional athletes are selected and trained by the nation.
As such,
a Chinese athlete is only trained to win medals for the so-called national interest.
As a result, victory is achieved by any means necessary, at all costs.
The Soviet Union and East Germany did the same, both of which were autocratic systems.
Both of them won a legendary number of gold medals in the Olympics.
East Germany, a small country with a population of just over 10 million,
won far more gold medals in multiple Olympics than the US, and was second only to the Soviet Union.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall,
a large number of confidential files were made public,
showing that the Soviet Union and East Germany had, for decades,
systemically made athletes use banned drugs and hormones,
which destroyed their health, and led to deformed newborns
and the deaths of hundreds of athletes.
Former East German shot putter Heidi Glick
had to undergo sex reassignment surgery after being forced to take drugs for so long.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany’s legendary status was no more.
The number of Germany’s gold medals in the Olympics has continued to fall.
In fact, it is not falling as much as it is slowly returning to normal,
as Germany does sports no longer for the sake of churning out gold medals,
but to improve the quality of the people and promote all-round growth of the society.
Now in Germany, one out of every three Germans is a member of a sports club.
This number can better explain what a big sports country is.
At the end of the day, it’s about the general masses.
Under the Whole Nation system, the following problems will arise.
First, the country spends a lot of national wealth every year
on the selection and training of a few elite athletes,
rather than on the public's demand for sports resources and physical fitness.
In China, for instance, there aren’t enough public stadiums, and most aren’t open to the public.
Second, a large number of young athletic talents are trained in isolation
from an early age, and these professional athletes, after retiring,
will have been uneducated and lacking survival skills.
Only a few athletes who can get gold medals or become sports stars
can have a life free of poverty after retirement.
But for most athletes, retirement is equivalent to unemployment.
Also, many people suffer from illnesses due to excessive and cruel training, making their life even more difficult.
Many former champions auction their gold medals, beg in the streets, or end up with no money for medical treatment, etc.
Athletes are abducted by the so-called national interest and glory for the country.
They are just political pawns in the national sports experiment.
Most people end up wasting decades of their youth,
becoming a victim of the system.
Third, under the Whole Nation system, sports are politically interfered with,
leading to systemic corruption. Star athletes,
coaches, sports bureaucrats, etc., form a huge web of corruption.
Various unspoken rules, bribes, rigged games,
bought rivals, drug abuse, etc., are very common.
Officials can manipulate the games and pre-determine the scores,
which almost every athlete has experienced.
He Zhili, a famous Chinese table tennis player,
did not obey the coach's arrangement during a game,
and was severely punished, despite winning the gold medal, and forced to retire.
After retiring, He Zhili got married in Japan and changed her name to Chire Koyama.
She made her comeback at the 1994 Asian Games.
On behalf of the Japanese team, she defeated China's world champion Deng Yaping and won the gold medal.
Therefore, she was called a traitor by Chinese audiences.
Also, in order to win medals, China can lie about an athlete’s real age,
which is mostly older, but sometimes younger, than officially stated.
For example, international gymnasts need to be at least 16 years old.
But minors have an advantage in flexibility.
Therefore, Chinese gymnasts generally falsely report their age.
The International Federation of Sports has conducted many investigations.
The Chinese side has perfectly faked everything, such as birth certificates and school status.
Well, almost perfectly.
Female athlete Dong Fangxiao wasn’t old enough for the World Gymnastics Championships in 1999,
so a false report was made.
Later, she changed her age back for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
However, even after ten years, the International Sports Federation still remembered her,
and cancelled her personal achievement.
The Chinese Gymnastics Association issued a statement saying Dong lied on her own.
But at that time Dong Fangxiao was just a 13-year-old child.
The rife use of stimulants also sheds some light on the corruption of the Chinese sports industry, which we have talked about in detail.
The CCP likes to justify themselves by saying that everything exists for a reason.
In that vein, the Whole Nation system certainly has its benefits, but only for the authoritarian regime.
The Olympic gold medals, just like North Korea’s nuclear weapons and China’s manned spacecrafts,
can become mental opiums of the brainwashed people.
Even when these people don’t have enough to eat or enough clothes to wear,
they can still be indulging themselves,
“Look how fast our high-speed rail is! Look at our spacecraft! Look at the gold medals!”
When the people are high on these mental opiums,
they can’t hold the government accountable, or care about their own civil rights.
The exposed shadiness in the Chinese sports arena is just the tip of the iceberg of the Whole Nation system.
As long as this system still exists, sports in China will never thrive,
the people will never enjoy sports for entertainment and physical fitness,
and China will never become a sports nation, let alone a sports power.
In the future, more inside stories about the Chinese sports system will surely be exposed, like those of the Soviet Union and East Germany.
After Communist China falls apart, more truths will surely come to light.
OK. Time to hear your comments on my last video.
In our last episode, many netizens shared their thoughts,
and revealed all kinds of discrimination in China.
Netizen tsiivi Lao said,
“In China, a particular scenario in films and TV shows makes the Chinese really happy.
A certain A looks down on a certain B only because of B’s appearance.
Unexpectedly, at a critical juncture,
B shows his identity and skills, taking everyone by surprise,
putting A to shame, flooring everyone.
There are so many scenarios like this in Chinese films and TV shows.
How eager are the Chinese to slap those who look down on them?
There is definitely a market for those films and TV shows.”
Netizen Liberty Lee said,
“Discrimination based on education degrees: infighting worsens as education gets more money-driven.
‘985’ uni students look down on ‘211’ ones, which in turn look down on other universities.
Quality unis look down on ordinary ones, which in turn look down on even lesser unis.
Lesser unis look down on tech schools, which in turn look down on those failed to go to uni.”
Netizen KL said,
“The slogans posted everywhere were the simplest example,
‘Speak Mandarin and be a civilized person.’ The subtext is so obvious.”
Netizens CC Hua and Flameyes said,
“Age discrimination: no job openings in any company for those over the age of 35.”
Netizen Ling Stein said,
“In my fifth grade of elementary school, a teacher said I ‘look stupid’ in front of the class.
It’s been over 20 years, and I have never forgotten that day.”
Netizen Emperor Qingfeng said,
“Unless you are a true black person living in China,
enjoying 3 study buddies, 180,000RMB-scholarships per year, and an air-conditioned dorm.”
Netizen zero Z quoted Lu Xun's "Random Thoughts Under the Lamp" and replied,
“A very servile person must be extremely cruel to their own kind,
because, for the self-esteem he has lost to the slave master,
he needs to be compensated by watching his fellow slaves suffer.”
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This is Klaus. See you next time.