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Not satisfied with winning a lot of gold medals, today the Chinese Government DEMANDED that their athletes win more gold medals in future Olympics. 

Now, I kinda wrote a mocking piece last week about how crazy this country is, but I now realize that I did not do the level of craziness any justice.  Here are some quotes.  Please note that these are not made up. 

Liu called on China’s athletes to make greater sacrifices and upbraided a “minority” of teams that had failed to fulfill their promise in Beijing.

“These (problems) require earnest reflection, to build courage from shame and to make up lost ground,” Liu said.

“As soon as we step off the podium, everything starts from zero,” he said.

In other words, when I accidently told gold medalist last week that they’d get 72 hours of vacation - I was wrong. By 72 hours.  Considering China has 1 billion more people than the United States, and is obviously not opposed to cheating (see generally: ‘womens’ gymnastics), I think it’s fair to say that we can expect them to win just about every event out there in 4 years in London.  Should be great to watch.