Mainstream media love to do these stories. This one is more balanced than usual.
Mail Online:
It’s enough to make any parents grimace as these Chinese children are contorted into the most uncomfortable positions.
Aged between four and seven, the young gymnasts are put through a rigorous stretching routine by their coaches during a training session. …
Read more: Hang in there: How children as young as four are stretched in training to be China’s future gymnasts
I was happy to see coaches doing handstand on a floor bar, rather than flat-handed. This will help prevent overuse injury to the wrists later in the career.
Thanks Jeni.