mercredi 7 août 2019

Olympic Channel Documentary

The first episode of the Olympic Channel's documentary on Hurd, Melnikova and Chen Yile is up:

https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/or...mpression=true

Chen Yile has not seen her family is 2 years. That is a narrative that we hear a lot in fluff pieces - that Chinese gymnasts sacrifice their family and childhood. Not being too familiar with the details of some centralized systems, does anyone know if that rate of seeing family members (for lack of a better way of putting it) is similar for the Russian and Romanian athletes? Is it forbidden for families to see their kids/gymnasts in China during training (before you jump on me for that word, it was "forbidden" for US parents to see their kids at competitions...), or is it a matter of distance and transport? Surely the gymnasts get some holidays off (New Years?) and so could be visited by their families?

It seems like Russian athletes also don't see their families a lot? Melnikova seems like such a sympathetic character, very easy to like. The competition footage of her is really nice.

Cool to see Chow laughing while coaching the gymnasts.
Olympic Channel Documentary

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