“Here the message is clear; you’ve got to win,” said China’s fencing coach Christian Bauer, a Frenchman, in an interview last week with the French newspaper L’Equipe. “When you’ve got a gold medal here, you’re somebody. When you have a silver, you’re not.”
51 at this games.
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Understandably, everyone wants a gold. That is not the point nor the issue. The point is, the Chinese REALLY do not count you if you won a SILVER or BRONZE. You will ONLY count if you have the GOLD.
The way they conduct themselves. Winning is everything and the winners receive the prize - the 2nd and 3rd place losers may as well find something else to do.
China will not honor them all - just the GOLD winners.
Keep this in mind for EVERYTHING else.
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