Children practise during their daily training in the table tennis hall at the Shishahai Sports School This school where around 500 young sports...
{"Image ImageDescription": "Children practise during their daily training in the table tennis hall at the Shishahai Sports School. This school, where around 500 young sports trainees live and start intensive from the age of five, is one of the most successful training venues in China. It has a history of coaching the country's future Olympic stars and at the Athens Olympics six medals were won by its graduates. China is making a big push for Olympic glory at the 2008 event in Beijing (and future contests), hoping to win more medals than the US. Hence it is pouring huge resources into training young athletes and there are around 300,000 children in sports academies such as this across China. (Photo by Gideon Mendel/Corbis via Getty Images)"}