Deng Yaping struggled from 1997 to 2006 to go through her education, and eventually would earn her Ph.D. from Cambridge. I see nothing wrong here. She is a woman of extrodinary achievement and extrodinary ability. Her thesis focused on what she is really good at --- PingPang, Physical Education and Olympics. Who else would be a better candidate to make such study? You? Why dont look at ourselves before laughing at others?