Rio 2016: China Rethinks Gold Medal Pursuit at Olympics – Wall Street Journal
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Rio 2016: China Rethinks Gold Medal Pursuit at Olympics
Wall Street Journal This year’s medal haul will leave Beijing with its smallest hoard of Olympic gold in two decades. For China, these Summer Games have piled defeat upon defeat in sports it once ruled, like gymnastics and badminton, and they exposed how thin-skinned … Embarrassing ‘flops’ or true Olympians — is China moving beyond its gold obsession? For US Olympians, gold medals come with a hefty tax bill China women beat Germany to claim table tennis gold |
