“Here’s the leader of the Chinese team, at the age of 20, Cheng Fei. She is one of the many who has been taken away from her family-not screaming and yelling out the door-but from the age of 3, and they may see their parents once a year. At one point she called her parents, said she wanted to come home. They knew that gymnastics could change the family life and they told her no, you stay with the program, and with the program she has stayed til these Olympic Games so crucial to the image of gymnastics and her country.” -Al Trautwig, NBC Olympic commentator, during the women’s gymnastics team final, August 13, 2008
