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amily only told her the news after her event was over.“We accepted a long time ago that she doesn’t belong entirely to us,” her father, Wu Yuming, told The Shanghai Morning Post. “I don’t even dare to think about things like enjoying family happiness.”When the story appeared in the United States, there were strong reactions. On Minnesota Public Radio, for example, a menter named Chris assailed “the level of insanity even juniorlevel kids in sports like gymnastics go through” in the United States. “And there are literally thousands of kids like this just in Minnesota. I was never so happy as when my daughter decided to drop petitive gymnastics at age 11.”Global Times acknowledged the furious criticism of the national sports system, but said in its editorial that “few believe it should be scrapped immediately.”“It’s unacceptable to take the attitude that winning is everything, and to try anything from doping to fielding underage athletes to get it,” Mr. Zhang said, referring to excesses of the state sports machine. “Nevertheless, it is ridiculous to give up gold medals for this reason.”Liu Yuanju, a Shanghaibased mentator, remarked on an incident in London when Chinese reporters swarmed to interview a Chinese gold medalist in shooting. When the reporters ignored the bronze medalist, also from China, she slipped quietly from the arena.“Many netizens were unhappy with or even enraged by this,” Mr. Liu said. “They called for the media to pay more attention to silver and bronze medal winners.” He added that this “also shows the positive development of our social mentality, which is being more humane and mature.” Twitter Email