London, July 11 (ANI): Dozens of young children in China are being put through gruelling gymnastic routines in a school in Nanjing as the country's authorities look to find the future stars from their young hopefuls.
Gymnastic stars are known to star at an incredibly early age, and this group of children appeared no different, as they battled to complete the demanding routines on bars, rings, and mats.
According to the Daily Mail, boys and girls aged from five or six-years, were asked to swinging on beams, hang from pairs of rings and bound across floor mats during the physically strenuous training sessions.
The school where they are being trained is the same one used by Chinese gymnast Xiao Qin, who won a gold medal on the pommel horse at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
The 27-year-old started training at the Nanjing sports school at the age of five, before being recruited by the 'August First' gymnastics team of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in 1995.
The youngsters at the training school are hoping to emulate the success of Qin, who joined China's national team in 1999 at the age of 14. (ANI)
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