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China's famous sports machine is working as efficiently and ruthlessly as ever to turn out future champions for the next Olympic Games, but some small signs of change to the draconian regime are emerging.
Young blood work hard to fulfill olympic dream
children like Lu Huanzhuang have been working hard to make their country proud by winning medals for it in the Olympics.
children selected on physical attributes rather then passion
Most of these young athletes were hand-picked by government officials. It's been the system for decades.This approach produced the athletes that helped China top the gold medal tally in 2008.
Poor rural children with talent supported by government
Li Guicheng, Principal of the Shichahai Sports School "A lot of poor rural kids because they get the support from the state or from our school, their abilities can be developed. So as far as the state is concerned, as far as a sports coach, this system still has a bright future."
Domestic leagues to bring sports to public
Officials want to develop more domestic sporting leagues, and use them as a platform to bring sports to the public. Deng Yaping, China's four-time Olympic table tennis champion and International Olympic Committee member says that they want to bring sponsors to get more people involved in professional sports.
Large scale preperations for Olympic 2012
With a massive infrastructure in place which has billions of dollars in funding, the next batch of Olympians still looks likely to be state-sponsored.And they will all be trying to get China to top the gold medal tally again in London 2012.

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