Douglas and her Ethnic Chinese coach

Liang Chow was born and raised in China. As the main member of the Chinese men's gymnastics in 1990's, he won numerous national and international medals, including more than 30 International gold medals.

He came to the United States for learning English in 1991 after a serious injury. and accepted an English scholarship and a coaching position at the University of Iowa.

He and his wife moved to West Des Moines, Iowa and opened Chow's Gymnastics and Dance Institute in 1993. Five years later, he bought a piece of land, built his own world-class gymnastics training facility.

Only 2 mouths later , Shawn Johnson joined his class. He made her from a 6-year-old novice to a world-class athlete.

Chow sent a training vedio type of the Shawn Johnson in 2005 to the official of the women's gymnastics team of US.  Then Shawn Johnson become a bright star.

As the Head Coach of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Silver Medal Team, personal coach of the 2008 Olympic gold medalist, Shawn Johnson ,he was well known to a famous coach.

Shawn gave up the opportunity to participate in London Olympics due to knee injury. But a 16 years old girl, Gabby Douglas, another student of Chow became the first American gymnast to win gold in both the individual all-around and team competitions at the same Olympics 3 days ago. Now she stands on top of the gymnastics world.

A man withdraw $1.5M by mistake,and gamble it away

The Bank of America bank’s glitch allowed mistakenly a Detroit man to steal more than one million dollars from ATMs.

His lucky streak began on Aug. 1, 2009, when prosecutors say the bank’s mistake allowed him to withdraw $312,000 from ATMs at Greektown Casino and $51,727 from MGM Grand Casino, both in Detroit.

He is a retired General Motors employee, kept an average of just $100 in his bank account.

Unfortunatelly,he pressed his luck in the casinos, eventually gambling away the entire amount.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit is recommending him receive 15 months in prison for stealing the funds and pay back every penny when he’s sentenced June 27 in federal court.


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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/bank-am ... -1.1099006

But do you know what would happen if this case is made in China?

On April 21, 2006, a chinese named Xu Ting ,withdrawaled his money in a bank's ATM cash machine in Guangzhou City. Discovered that when he removed 1000 Yuan, the bank card account only deducted 1 Yuan. Ting Xu are very pleased, successively teller 175,000 Yuan. A year later he was arrested by the police. But he said he is helping the bank custody of money, rather than theft.
But the court finally sentenced him to life imprisonment for theft.