For me this is just abuse, nothing else. If they want a golden medal at the Olympics that bad, they should get it themselves. They shouldn't force their children because they were failed athletes.

A lot of these children/teenagers get taken away from their homes to go train in a government institutes, permanently. I read an article about a girl who left her home at 16. Now she's 26, and she didn't even know her grandparents died and that her mother had cancer. State property.