> By JOHN LEICESTER, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 45 minutes ago
>
> 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.
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> 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...