So … Exactly How Old Are The Chinese Girls? - With Video
I don’t know …My college daughter Kate is home for a couple weeks before the fall semester … and she’s planted herself on the living room couch for evening Olympics viewing … So, the other night I couldn’t avoid its background noise …Upon glancing over a couple times during the “women’s’” gymnastics competition those of us in the room made more than one comment that a couple of the Chinese team members did NOT look 16 … clearly.
These people poo-pooing it away are sorely mistaken. Rules, after all, are rules. Why have an age limit? They have gender regulations (while checking these Chinese ‘girls’ in question … how about checking THAT too, as I see a similarity of their facial and torso, legs and arms physiologies to young boys … boys physically develop slower than girls in this age-group) and drug rules … There is enough document evidence at hand to at least warrant an investigation by the Olympic Governing Committee … No? Or has the Olympics completely lost its integrity now?
Having said that … I must contend, for whatever ‘reason(s)’, the USA women’s team just didn’t get it done, and are damn lucky to have silver …
By JOHN LEICESTER
BEIJING - Just nine months before the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese government’s news agency, Xinhua, reported that gymnast He Kexin was 13, which would have made her ineligible to be on the team that won a gold medal this week.
In its report Nov. 3, Xinhua identified He as one of “10 big new stars” who made a splash at China’s Cities Games. It gave her age as 13 and reported that she beat Yang Yilin on the uneven bars at those games. In the final, “this little girl” pulled off a difficult release move on the bars known as the Li Na, named for another Chinese gymnast, Xinhua said in the report, which appeared on one of its Web sites, http://www.hb.xinhuanet.com
The Associated Press found the Xinhua report on the site Thursday morning and saved a copy of the page. Later that afternoon, the Web site was still working but the page was no longer accessible. Sports editors at the state-run news agency would not comment for publication.
If the age reported by Xinhua was correct, that would have meant He was too young to be on the Chinese team that beat the United States on Wednesday and clinched China’s first women’s team Olympic gold in gymnastics. He is also a favorite for gold in Monday’s uneven bars final.
Yang was also on Wednesday’s winning team. Questions have also been raised about her age and that of a third team member, Jiang Yuyuan.
Gymnasts have to be 16 during the Olympic year to be eligible for the games. He’s birthday is listed as Jan. 1, 1992.
Chinese authorities insist that all three are old enough to compete. He herself told reporters after Wednesday’s final that “my real age is 16. I don’t pay any attention to what everyone says.”
Zhang Hongliang, an official with China’s gymnastics delegation at the games, said Thursday the differing ages which have appeared in Chinese media reports had not been checked in advance with the gymnastics federation.
“It’s definitely a mistake,” Zhang said of the Xinhua report, speaking in a telephone interview. “Never has any media outlet called me to check the athletes’ ages.”
Asked whether the federation had changed their ages to make them eligible, Zhang said: “We are a sports department. How would we have the ability to do that?”
“We already explained this very clearly. There’s no need to discuss this thing again.”
The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) has said repeatedly that a passport is the “accepted proof of a gymnast’s eligibility,” and that He and China’s other gymnasts have presented ones that show they are age eligible. The IOC also checked the girls’ passports and deemed them valid.
A May 23 story in the China Daily newspaper, the official English-language paper of the Chinese government, said He was 14. The story was later corrected to list her as 16.
“This is not a USAG issue,” said Steve Penny, president of USA Gymnastics. “The FIG and the IOC are the proper bodies to handle this.”
(AP)
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While it is probably true, the Chinese are basically saying to the world, what the fuck are you gonna do about it?
So, yeah wtf are we gonna do about it?
When you invite a corrupt person to take part in something and they cheat everyone, why do people act shocked.
They are only doing what they normally do.
The answer is to not invite them in the first place….
August 14th, 2008 at 4:31 pmI think the forensic evidence is the clincher. cant argue with the science. But hey, these are communist countries who see more value in propaganda than being ethical.
August 14th, 2008 at 4:39 pmAll of these girls look prebubescent.
August 14th, 2008 at 4:54 pmSo, yeah wtf are we gonna do about it?
Seems like a lot of the commies and Islamoshits are asking the same thing…
August 14th, 2008 at 5:07 pmThis is why I always watch porn…the outcome is always clear and the big winner is usually somebody simple like the pizza delivery guy.
August 14th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
August 14th, 2008 at 5:22 pmAll of these girls look prebubescent.
August 14th, 2008 at 5:48 pmThey don’t even have che-chees yet.
I think they are 7 or 8 years-old.
WTF is up with that?
Yes without a doubt, I would have to say these girls are indeed under 12 years old and with this controversy centered around the young age of the Chinese Gymnasts, I can’t help but to be reminded of the famous Chinese Novel, “Over-Population In China” by Wei Fukm Yung.
August 14th, 2008 at 7:10 pmI work with a Chinese lady who is now an American Citizen and she stated that their wasn’t a doubt in her mind that they falsified their ages.
August 14th, 2008 at 7:12 pmOur female team members have hips and boobs…..2 things missing from most of the Chinese Commie team.
I also agree that maybe one of them stands up when “she” pees??
August 14th, 2008 at 7:47 pmThat is the first thing i thought when i saw them, they were clearly not anywhere near 16.
There was also some bullshit going on with the judges on one of the other events, even the talking head announcers noticed it. (but didn’t say much)
August 14th, 2008 at 10:32 pmCheck out an alternative Olympic website…
August 15th, 2008 at 12:11 amhttp://www.darfurolympics.org/dayone.php
No way they’re 12.
August 15th, 2008 at 5:02 amBut they might be genetically engineered somehow.
The ChiComms figure a way to create eggs in a lab and the word sister will disappear from their vocabulary.
Well, it’s just another product of China’s sports machine. I’m not surprised AT ALL, but hey — at least Nastia Liuken & Shawn Johnson got the best of these cheaters (cheaters never prosper) and we took the gold & silver!
Go USA!
Seriously though — never trust a communist. never trust ‘em. Ever.
August 15th, 2008 at 7:06 am