Source: CCTV.com

05-03-2007 15:55

Athletes from all over the world dream of Olympic victory and work hard to make their dreams come true.

But behind every famous athlete, are a group of people who are little known to the public but vital to sporting success.

They are training partners. Several Chinese national teams, including the badminton and table tennis teams, have training partners.

Our reporter Guo Liying went behind the scenes with the Chinese women's judo team and found that team members are not the only ones with Olympic dreams.

This is what you would expect to hear at the national women's judo training center.

But this is not what most people would expect to see during a women's judo training session.

These men are not just being thrown around They are training partners for the Chinese women's judo team.

20-year-old Dong Liqiang is thrown like this hundreds of times in a day's training. But you can't keep a good man down And he is soon on his feet again and ready for another round.