Would you term this 'Torture or Training'?

Each year thousands of children, some as young as four, are enrolled in Schools of Sport in China, and begin the harsh training regimes designed to turn them into Olympic winners. If they succeed in winning Olympic gold they are rewarded with a $25,000 payment from the government. The picture above shows a young gymnast practising her leaps at Wuhan School of Sport, where dozens of children with sporting potential stay in dormitories away from their families. Not bad, whatever brings the gold home. See more photos after cut;

 

(Nanning Gymnasium, China)

Photo Credit: Tom Stoddart, Barcroft