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Posted on 08/22/2008 3:06:08 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner
With the parents growing indignant and the Beijing Games winding down, the International Olympic Committee wants to “put to rest” persistent questions about the age of China’s gold medal women’s gymnastics team.
The IOC said Friday there is still no proof anyone cheated, though it asked the International Gymnastics Federation to investigate “what have been a number of questions and apparent discrepancies,” spokeswoman Giselle Davies said. However, all the information the Chinese gymnastics federation presented supports its insistence that its athletes were old enough to compete.
(Excerpt) Read more at sports.yahoo.com ...
Made in China Spineless IOC PING!
I read another article on this early this AM. It was essentially — We looked at all the documents they supplied, and they all proved she was of age. The discrepancies did not prove that He (the girl’s name) was underage.
Amazing.
All the copies of their birth were given to us by your Dan rather so they must be true.
Well as long as they all posted on the internet Certifications of Live Birth, how can anyone argue.
Amazing.
Must have been a Hawaiian birth Certificate.
FWIW, my sixteen year old adopted Chinese daughter would and has easily passed for twelve, thirteen. She was 4’-9”, 55lbs when we adopted her almost four years ago and is now just reached the same size as my USA TEN YEAR OLD and my ten year old, also adopted from China as an infant, is the smallest of her school classmates.
We here in America are plumped up on growth hormones injested from the livestock consumed here, they don’t do that in other parts of the world so their people are smaller.
Example, go to KFC, Bejing and order a breast meal - the chicken’s half the size of the chicken breast sold in the US. Livestock size disparity will confirm the hormone connection.
But did either of your daughters compete in sporting events THIS YEAR and have their ages published, by their sport’s organizers, as 14?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bkUaeM7papk/SKxdy7epPlI/AAAAAAAAABI/Hq86PcLE4CU/s1600/p2googlecnBefore.jpg
sorry, don’t know how to post images. This google screenshot is from some blog, and right after this screen shot, you can find the other screenshots that show how these docs were altered. Heck, we don’t even need freepers to open Photoshop!!
Verrrry interesting!
In the early 90’s, North Korea had a gymnas who was 15 for 3 years in a row! North Korea couldn’t compete in intl competition the next year.
But guess what? North Korea and China are best of friends. Does anyone really believe they don’t share secrets?
I think the point you are missing is that their ages were posted as 14 just this year!
Love the argument put forth by an NBC analyst this morning that they could have simply gotten it wrong. He compared it to the NBC website listing his age wrong.
The difference is (and I don’t think this clueless chap understood this) was the fact that in China everything is controlled by the state!
If they said she is 14, she is 14.
Case closed.
When haven’t the Chinese lied?
Thanks Jack.
lol.... he must be a comedian.
“Even China’s own Yang Yun, a double bronze medalist in Sydney, said during an interview aired on state broadcaster China Central Television that she was 14 during the 2000 Games.”
you said”She was 4’-9”, 55lbs when we adopted her almost four years ago and is now just reached the same size as my USA TEN YEAR OLD and my ten year old, also adopted from China as an infant, is the smallest of her school classmates.”
No one cares what they look like. This is the problem.
“Earlier this month, the AP found registration lists previously posted on the Web site of the General Administration of Sport of China that showed both He and Yang were too young to compete. He was born Jan. 1, 1994, according to the 2005, 2006 and 2007 registration lists. Yang was born Aug. 26, 1993, according to the 2004, 2005 and 2006 registration lists. In the 2007 registration list, however, her birthday has changed to Aug. 26, 1992.”
Since then hackers have found numerous other web sites in Chinese that have been removed that also show their ages to be under 16. Apparently the Chinese officials who are perpetrating this fraud don't realize that search sites cache web sites so that they remain accessible even after they have been removed. The Chinese have made rather pathetic attempts to cover their tracks , but their attempts at covering up the evidence tends to only further implicate them. The Chinese are lying and sadly it means that eventually those girls will lose their medals.
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Guess China figures that vetting other countries participants is perfectly fine but no one is allow to vet their participants.
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