Shame! Shame! Shame on China! -- International Olympic Committee asks
for inquiry on age of Chinese gymnasts/IHT

International Herald Tribune

International Olympic Committee asks for inquiry on age of Chinese gymnasts
Juliet Macur

Friday, August 22, 2008

Beijing: The International Olympic Committee has asked the world
governing body for gymnastics to investigate whether members of the
Chinese women's team were too young to compete in the Olympics.

The IOC instructed the international gymnastics federation, known as the
FIG, to take up the issue with the Chinese gymnastics federation and
report back to the IOC later Friday.

The New York Times reported last month that online records listing
Chinese gymnasts and their ages that were posted on official Web sites
in China, along with ages given in the official Chinese news media,
indicated that members of the team might be as young as 14. A gymnast
must turn 16 in the year of the Olympics to compete in the Games.
Chinese officials responded by providing copies of passports indicating
that the athletes in question were old enough.

"Micky Wong" wrote in message
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On Aug 22, 7:56 pm, "RussellT" telus.net> wrote:

"Xangdi" mail.com> wrote in message
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Did you read somewhere that I demanded he read it and demanded he answer?
Don't be foolish. Replies are for whoever wants to read them, at THEIR
choice, and answering is also optional. I think the intelligent person can
get the gist of the problem. So, Xangdi, what do you want to say of
importance?

On Aug 22, 8:30 pm, "RussellT" telus.net> wrote:

About this issue? Nothing more than what we have all read, that the
International Olympic Committee is launching an investigation into
Chinese gold-medal-winning gymnast He Kexin's age, the Times of London...

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On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:04:43 GMT, "RussellT"
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"none" <""bbb\"@(none)"> wrote in message
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If you are not too stupid to get it, you choose to be too stupid so
you don't get it. I'm talking about awarding a gold medal to the
world's biggest loser of Olympic competition. So far the poor
sportsmanship demonstrated by the people of America as a nation is
ranking second to none on this "competition". You people deserve to be
the gold medallist of the world's biggest loser. After what you have
done to the young Chinese gymnasts, no one can compete with you on
this. Apparently, you Americans are willing to go as low as you can
possibly be just to get a medal even if it means to steal it from the
winner *after* losing the competition. You can't win in the
competition, but you can always steal despite the competition. That is
very American I'm sure.

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:58:32 GMT, "RussellT"
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nothing to do with sportmanship but alleged cheating by the facist regime in
China. No indication of cheating - no potential foul - DUH

Chinese athletes are not generally sportman but products of a state
apparatus - no country bar maybe N Korea does this. One of the most
succssful sporst nations - Australia - identifies talent but is well down
the path when a kid selected that sport and later showed apptitude.

explain the official docs retrived from the net ?

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