世界冠军乞讨为生，体育机制引发关注

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世界冠军乞讨为生，体育机制引发关注

Monday, July 18, 2011

前体操世界冠军张尚武（28岁）如今一贫如洗、满身伤病，而且失业。这让国内培养精英运动员的机制成为关注焦点。

张尚武曾在2001年北京世界大学生运动会上获得吊环和团体两枚金牌。他早前因盗窃被判刑4年，今年4月获释，之后一直在北京各地铁站卖艺乞讨。

据报道，内地数以千计年轻人自童年起就把全部时间投入艰苦训练，别无旁骛，只想着在奥运会上夺冠。张尚武的经历折射出这些年轻人的命运。

张尚武接受《新京报》采访时说，他出生在河北保定一个贫困家庭，5岁就被送入当地一家体育学校练习体操，从此开始漫长、半军事化的训练生活。7年后，他入选国家体操队。2001年，国家队主管让他冒充大学生参加大运会。

2002年1月，张尚武在训练中左脚跟腱断裂，中断了运动生涯。之后，他落选2004年雅典奥运会参赛阵容，退回河北体操队，3年后退役。

A world champion begs for a living

Zhang Shangwu struck gold after training from early childhood to become one of the country's top gymnasts - now he is on the scrapheap of life

The plight of a 28-year-old former world champion gymnast battling poverty, injury and unemployment has put the spotlight on the mainland's system of producing top athletes.

Zhang Shangwu , who won two gold medals in the rings and team events at the 2001 World University Games in Beijing, has lived by begging in the city's subway stations since his release in April from a four-year jail term for theft. Local media publicised his situation last week.

Zhang's sports experience, the reports say, reflect the fate of thousands of young people who throw themselves full-time into an arduous training programme from childhood, thinking of nothing else but winning a gold medal at the Olympics.

Born to a penniless family in Baoding , Hebei province, Zhang was sent to a local sports school to practise gymnastics at the age of five, starting a long, semi-military training regime. Seven years later he was selected for the national gymnastics team. In 2001, national team leaders told him to pass himself off as a university student so that he could attend the World University Games, he told Beijing News.

His sports career was halted after he broke his left Achilles tendon while training in January 2002. He failed to make selection for the Olympic team that went to Athens in 2004 and was downgraded to the Hebei provincial gymnastics team. Three years later he retired.