Torture or training?

Her face etched with pain, a child trains for Olympic glory while her gymnastics trainer stands on her legs. The cartoon space rockets and animal astronauts on her tiny red leotard are a stark and powerful reminder of this little girl's tender age as she trains as hard as any adult athlete in the Western world.

source: Article 'Torture or training? Inside the brutal Chinese gymnasium where the country's future Olympic stars are beaten into shape' by Matt Blake; www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2182127/How-China-trains-children-win-gold--standing-girls-legs-young- boys-hang-bars.html; Mail Online; 1 August 2012