# Bizarre "Animal Olympics " in China?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-animal-olympics-in-china/375372>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 5, 2006, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-animal-olympics-in-china/375372 "2006-10-05T11:22:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-animal-olympics-in-china/375372/1 "2006-10-05T11:22:50Z")

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Read the blurb on this from the DAILY MAIL (UK) :[Un-bear-able: China's cruel animal Olympics reach new heights | Daily Mail Online](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=407693&in_page_id=1770)  
This is bizarre beyond belief! Whoi would dream up something like this?  
Anyway, how DO you train a bear to drive a motorcycle on a high wire? Do the animals get prizes?  
Very strange! :eek:

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**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-animal-olympics-in-china/375372/2 "2006-10-05T11:36:36Z")

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umm, well, China’s a big country with a lot of people. Most of them peasants. There’s a lot of stuff out of the 1800’s still going on here.

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**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-animal-olympics-in-china/375372/3 "2006-10-05T16:54:28Z")

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[QUOTE=ralph124c]

Anyway, how DO you train a bear to drive a motorcycle on a high wire? Do the animals get prizes?  
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From what I’ve heard you can train a bear to do pretty much anything. It’s getting them to stop that’s the hard part.

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**Author:** ![Corporate\_Hippie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/65b543/32.png) [@Corporate\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corporate_Hippie)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-animal-olympics-in-china/375372/4 "2006-10-05T17:24:26Z")

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[Animalympics?](http://imdb.com/title/tt0078780/)