It's true that they train insanely hard. But to say it even approaches anything close to breaking the law, or even as his revised wording stated, unacceptable, I don't agree with. China's table tennis program is structured in a way that there is no chance you will be playing for the team past 35, thats plenty of time to relax, so its really not that crazy that they put in a ton of work when they are young. What better time to work insanely hard, when you are young, your body can take it, and you have the energy to do it. It's the mentality of nearly all successful people. Once they are done playing for the team they are set for life, because the Chinese Athletic system takes care of its successful players. You are provided with housing, a job, you can be a coach for the team, or open your own table tennis club, which will draw a ton of people, since they know you have skill. In many ways because China is run in a solely capitalistic/market way, professional players in China do much better than those in other countries. Because they don't have to reply solely on sponsors and etc for their income, they have state support.