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Originally Posted by lacoruna69
Come to think of it, those Olympic athletes also quite pitiful.
I mean they started dedicate their youths, usually they started very young (< 10 years old), to go academy to train and hope to represent their country for major events.
But usually for high energy sports, very short shelf life.
If you are pass 25, you are consider old.
With China's mass population, every year got tonnes of prospective candidates.
If you reach 18 and deeemd not good enough for major events, you will be asked to leave.
For accomplished Olympic athletes, if you got good ties with the top brass, you might get some coaching jobs once you stepped down.
But for many, they will get thrown back to working world realising they had lost out on education and working experience.
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That's why a lot of them venture overseas to represent other country.
For certain events like table tennis it's like China vs China vs China
under different flag. Disadvantage of too big population.