Many people are in for a great surprise when the Bejing medal tally is finally counted. China has spent an enormous amount of money to groom it's athletes and seeks the top spot on the success ladder.
This coming Olympics will be the fulmination of a carefully structured plan that has seen hundreds of thousands of carefully selected young men and women inducted into training camps and fine tuned to perfection.
China has carefully thought out it's success plan. Athletes have been trained for the full spectrum of Olympic competition, but special emphasis has been given to women's sports because these will attract lesser funding in the US and Europe. Better funding in China brings hope of an enhanced medal tally.
Only a chosen few will perform at the Olympics, and for the others who failed to make the grade life will be uncertain. The training camps have sport as the only objective and consequently after the Olympics China will have a vast army of lesser sports people who lack skills to enable them to succeed in life.
To be the biggest medal winner has been a state objective set by the Communist party - and it must be of concern to other nations that the world's most populous country has aspirations to be world number one in many areas - despite the cost in national resources and personal sacrifice.
There is only a fine line between domination in sport and commerce - and the use of military force to meet national objectives.
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