Olympic dreams in Mongolia
While the elite of the sporting world tune up for this year's London Olympics in top class facilities, many hundreds of other medal hopefuls are forced to make do with less salubrious surroundings.
Mongolia's Asian champion freestyle wrestler Mandakhnaran Ganzorig is a case in point, as a visit to his training camp in Ulan Bator, the capital of his landlocked country, last October proved.
The gym looked like something that Rocky Balboa might have trained in before he went from 'Bum of the Month' to world champion in Sylvester Stallone's Oscar-winning boxing movie series.
Old and tired, the paint peeled from the walls above a floor littered with practice mats that had clearly seen better days. Light flooded in from glass bricks along the top edge of one wall and bounced off the others.
A group of children played on ancient free weight machines, climbed up gym ropes and rolled around on the floor mimicking their wrestling hero Ganzorig.
Mongolia's Asian champion freestyle wrestler Mandakhnaran Ganzorig is a case in point, as a visit to his training camp in Ulan Bator, the capital of his landlocked country, last October proved.
The gym looked like something that Rocky Balboa might have trained in before he went from 'Bum of the Month' to world champion in Sylvester Stallone's Oscar-winning boxing movie series.
Old and tired, the paint peeled from the walls above a floor littered with practice mats that had clearly seen better days. Light flooded in from glass bricks along the top edge of one wall and bounced off the others.
A group of children played on ancient free weight machines, climbed up gym ropes and rolled around on the floor mimicking their wrestling hero Ganzorig.
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