As one of the few top Chinese athletes to break with her country’s rigid Soviet-style sports system, Zheng Jie has had to get used to life without the government’s mollycoddling hand.
A year ago, Zheng Jie joined colleagues Li Na, Yan Zi and Peng Shuai in spurning the national system and its gruelling regime of locked-down training camps that can span weeks and months.
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