For the first time in history, an American citizen is participating with the Chinese gymnastics team in hopes of competing durings the 2000 olympics in Sydney, Australia. The young boy, Raul Martin, was born in the Arkansas but traveled to China with his parents at the age of three to sale amway. Raul attended chinese schools and aquired multiple trophies for his outstanding abiltiy to play chinese checkers. It wasn't until he was four however that his true talent became known. "The boy pracitcally has no backbone," says his father. "One day I walked in on him and he was bent up like a pretzel, shall we say looking for love in all the wrong places. I knew at that point, he was gonna be one of them queer little gymnasts." According to his gymnastic coach, Chi Phoe, Raul's extrodinare talents are attributed to more then his weak bone structure. "Raul has medical condition known as 'Congenital micropenis' Which allows him to do splits like little girl. He got little wang, make it easy for him." Regardless the young American has shown tremendous talent and was allowed to join the Chinese team for training due to his unusual skills. "He's very strong competitor and will be difficult to beat," says Chi.