China is doing whatever they can to make sure they win gold at the Beijing Olympics. One of their strategies is hiring foreign coaches.

Some of their foreign coaches include

Basketball - Lithuanian
Hockey - South Korean
Syncronized swimming - Japanese
Women’s softball - American

Bastian, who coached in the defunct U.S. Women’s Professional Softball League, says he is well compensated in China.

“They take good care of me, about like a top level American college coach,” he said.

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