US Olympians Do Not Want To Squat

In China, the main toilet used by everyone is a squatting toilet.

To use these toilets you must place your feet on the ridges alongside the toilet, and squat down to the ground, thereby releasing your shit-stream efficiently into the waiting hole. In America, these type of toilets are not far removed from the "hole" used in some prison's solitary confinement cells!

Squatting to shit is much better for the body and the colon than the sitting position favored by westerners. More shit comes out and the colon is straightened to allow for easy passage. Sitting on the toilet crimps the colon, and is widely seen as one of the main causes of the high prostate and colon cancer rate in the west.

It seems that not every toilet available in the Beijing Olympic facilities is a sit-down toilet, and many athletes are complaining.

Chinese Olympic authorities are scrambling to refit toilets after complaints
that some Olympic venues had squat toilets instead of the sit down model
favored by Westerners. Athletes, miffed at the prospect of having to squat to do their stuff, reportedly complained and refitting work is currently underway at some otherwise high-tech venues, like the Water Cube aquatics center. Most Chinese still use the traditional squat toilets, while most parts of the developed world prefer the sit down model. By the time the Games begin, authorities aim to refit toilets in many of the estimated 31 venues in Beijing alone. According
to authorities, the Olympics could be an opportunity to speed the transition
from the squat models to the sit down toilet for millions of Chinese.

This is too much fun. Now we are going to give hundreds of millions of
Chinese crooked colons!
At least they spent much money teaching their host girls and presenters how to smile Western Style.