Tencent Sports：Finally China tops gold medal table for the first time, which is a significant event. Some people complained that spending extravagantly to fulfill a political mission aimed at building a facade of sports powerhouse has nothing to do with grass-root sports development. Actually those types of accusations are not necessary. You are all right because once we have reached summit, sitting at the top of gold medal table, we can then turn our attention to other priorities; otherwise, we will need to fight for this goal one Olympics after another.

When we win more golds than any other country, we should first thank for athletes as individuals. Why do we treat athletes as individuals? Because of our existing system, money spent on athletes are indeed public funding. Since it's public funding, to our understand, it's from taxpayers. On second thought, we suddenly realize that as if we had shares and we had a part in a athlete's development and rising to fame. Therefore squandering taxpayer's money becomes another point of criticism.

Of course, people who side with this type of opinion probably have never paid taxes.

Those making big fuss out of this seem that they have never met someone or social groups except athletes who waste public funding.

It's so pity that athletes take such blames. Actually they have not spent much state and taxpayers money. Honestly speaking, to train an athlete may cost a few million yuan, and it has become the potent threat if a pilot wants to leave an airline or a young driver plans to transfer to another team. The airline and racing team will threaten you that you need to redeem the investment. Yes, they have included money spent on building racing track and the toilets along the racing track on as part of the investment on you. The fact is that many successful athletes make a lot money through advertising, and those organizations that made the investment on athletes keep considerable amount of the advertising income. Athletes bear other responsibilities besides sports, and they have been attached with great expectation at certain circumstances. On many occasions, corrupt officials actually squandered public funds in big way, and each waste can train and develop hundred athletes of national caliber. As taxpayers, our reaction to waste of public funding by corrupt officials is muted, if not at all, but we will pour our anger on athletes who fail to capture gold, silver or to achieve certain results.

As outstanding athletes, they should accept criticism for underperformance or mistakes. However they should not accept accusation of the type mentioned earlier.

Today, we won a silver at diving Men's 10m platform. Though many media pretended to comfort the rookie, their headlines were"Chinese diving team failed to sweep up the golds " and " China let 50th gold medal slip away." Sweeping up golds actually is not a good thing. If you bag all golds at diving and table tennis events, and the day will arrive that these two events will disappear from Olympics like softball and baseball as result of fading interest in diving and table tennis from other countries. That scenario, though not against the principle of "sports for all", will be a national disaster for people who value golds and face. Therefore, we grab majority of golds, leaving some for other countries to compete for, it'll be beneficial for both us and the sports events.

Besides, whether to break 50 golds and 100 medals mark, it's meaningless. I am worried about the mistreatment some of the athletes will face if , for example, tomorrow instead of gold, they only finish second or fourth.

We can foster a thinking that it's sorry to get a silver, shameful to withdraw, meddlesome to shoot advertising and all problems will be gone if winning a gold medal.

I would also like offering advice to parents of high income who would like their kids pursuing sports career: if you can afford, you should spend your own money investing on your kids, which will remove the burden that it's your country and taxpayer who have supported and trained your kids. If you follow my advice, on one hand, you will not be bothered with hassle of prize money distribution if your kids make great achievements one day; on the other hand, you can just quit if your kids lose interest or fail to make the breakthrough. You then will not need to take the criticism from millions of shareholders.

I hope that every athlete could have fun as the Olympics approach the end. They have worked so hard. We should congratulate them first for obtaining personal glory and then for bringing pride to their country, at the time of peace. Only individuals enjoy the glory that belongs to them can their country bask in pride and honor.

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