Name: 【中國尋奇】身價百萬的賽鴿比賽 China's Millionaire Pigeon Racers (Full Length)
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And $1 million worth of pigeons just flew over my head

Like most rational humans, we consider pigeons vermin,

Flying bird shit dispensers who spread disease and

Here in China, they take a slightly more progressive view

of the pigeon, 20 years ago, sort of a poor man's delicacy.

But now, with the new Chinese economy, it's become a rich

Instead of spending their money on wine and cars,

Beijing's new billionaires are spending hundreds of thousands

The same flying rats we kick in New York have been turned

into luxury goods, with pigeons auctioning for up to

$330,000 per bird, which has turned pigeon racing from an

old man's hobby into, if not the sport of kings, at least

Billy from Vice China is going to help us guide our way

through the ritzy underworld that is Chinese pigeon racing.

These are the guys who are racing pigeons behind us.

They are all really well-monied noveau elites.

If China's upper crust looks a little, well, murdery, it's

There really isn't an old money here, considering they

Everybody who's rich now got rich on their own, and often

So the way the race works is all the pigeon owners bring

That costs us 5,000 kuai, which is a little

And they take all the pigeons, load them up

Once they get to the launch site, the pigeons are released

en masse and use their homing instincts to fly back to their

Since the distance varies from roost to roost, the winner of

the race isn't the first bird to land, but the one who

maintains the fastest average speed in flight.

This is tabulated by whoever's putting on the race behind

closed doors, then announced via the web and mass text,

which makes pigeon racing not only a horrible sport to

watch, but also an extremely easy sport to fix.

I think there's two more trays that are going to go in there.

This is the thoroughbred racing of China--

The man to beat this year is Mr. Bokun who, despite getting

into the sport two years ago, has already won multiple

championships and owns one of the most expensive flocks in

China, as well as his own racing association.

THOMAS MORTON: He also has two professional trainers who look

like the nunchuck guy from "Double Dragon." They care for

his birds and chauffeur them to the races in their own car.

THOMAS MORTON: After registration, Mr. Bokun

invited us over to his modest 10th and 11th floor walk-up to

see where he keeps his championship breeding flock.

THOMAS MORTON: Are you worried, is anybody worried,

that the cost of entry to pigeon racing might exclude

THOMAS MORTON: Can I ask, what kind of company do you run?

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