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According to the splits online, Phelps and Lochte killed the first half and all the other two had to do was not DQ.
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a couple Olympics ago they put a minimum age of a gymnast, what is it? Because that chinese uneven bar girl looks five

its supposed to be 16. But, all of the chinese girls look like they are 12 or 13 at oldest

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There's not one chance in hell all those Chinese girls are 16. Not 15 even.

 

Seriously, the little one is 9 years old at the most.

Is it one of those "soft" rules?

 

You need to be 16......

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There's not one chance in hell all those Chinese girls are 16. Not 15 even.

 

Seriously, the little one is 9 years old at the most.

Is it one of those "soft" rules?

 

You need to be 16......

 

We know there is some coruption in the IOC. Would be funny to see them stripped of the gold cause of age violations.

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LOL, so this is extremely fishy now. Here's the quote:

 

The Times reported International Gymnastics Federation officials acknowledged questions about He's age had been raised. "We heard these rumors, and we immediately wrote to the Chinese gymnastics federation," Andre Gueisbuhler, the secretary general of the international federation, told the newspaper. "They immediately sent a copy of the passport, showing the age, and everything is OK. That's all we can check."

 

So let me get this straight. All they have to send is their own passport? What about checking the records of the newspapers that reported the age @ 14?

 

BTW, doesn't matter anyway because the USA girls are pretty much nuking themselves. But still.

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http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Sport/Pix/pictures/2008/08/10/spanishbasketballteam.jpg

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/aug/10/olympics2008.olympicsbasketball

 

Spain's Basketball Federation has published a good luck advert for their men's team, the world champions, in which they stand pulling at the sides of their eyes in a slit-eyed gesture.

 

There is no obvious intention to upset their Olympic hosts in Beijing, but the irresponsible picture is likely to cause controversy and could be interpreted so as to lead to accusations of racism.

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LOL, so this is extremely fishy now. Here's the quote:

 

The Times reported International Gymnastics Federation officials acknowledged questions about He's age had been raised. "We heard these rumors, and we immediately wrote to the Chinese gymnastics federation," Andre Gueisbuhler, the secretary general of the international federation, told the newspaper. "They immediately sent a copy of the passport, showing the age, and everything is OK. That's all we can check."

 

So let me get this straight. All they have to send is their own passport? What about checking the records of the newspapers that reported the age @ 14?

 

BTW, doesn't matter anyway because the USA girls are pretty much nuking themselves. But still.

 

The problem is that the newspapers don't have any proof. You can check the passport, birth certificate, anything you want. Anytime you have a government that can change documents at will like that and convince its people to keep up that deception, there's nothing the international community can do.

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LOL, so this is extremely fishy now. Here's the quote:

 

The Times reported International Gymnastics Federation officials acknowledged questions about He's age had been raised. "We heard these rumors, and we immediately wrote to the Chinese gymnastics federation," Andre Gueisbuhler, the secretary general of the international federation, told the newspaper. "They immediately sent a copy of the passport, showing the age, and everything is OK. That's all we can check."

 

So let me get this straight. All they have to send is their own passport? What about checking the records of the newspapers that reported the age @ 14?

 

BTW, doesn't matter anyway because the USA girls are pretty much nuking themselves. But still.

 

Yep, the passports that China provided to the IOC is good enough and apparently one Canadian coach is satisified.

 

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=c46b0f84-71e1-44e8-9719-db36acc15b0d

 

"It's really bigger than gymnastics," began Carol-Angela Orchard, who coaches Canadian gymnast Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs. For the record, she is one of few coaches here who is not accusing the Chinese of cheating, heading into tomorrow's team competition.

 

"I can't go to the Canadian government and say, 'Please give me a passport for Elyse that will allow her to compete at the Olympic Games [before she is of age].' That simply can not happen," Ms. Orchard said.

 

"So, if it's a passport that the government supplies, if they have documentation from their government that says that is their age, then that's their age."

 

Bela Karolyi, former coach to Nadia Comaneci and Mary Lou Retton, now coaches the pixies of the United States team. He spoke out last week about the Chinese.

 

"This is a joke," he said. "We are people who have had children of our own, so we know what a 16-year-old should look like. They should not look like they are seven and maybe still in diapers."

 

The New York Times reported irregularities in the ages of the Chinese gymnasts last month, finding online records that showed two gymnasts, He Kexin and Jiang Yuyuan, may only be 14. The state-run Chinese Central Television Web site also posted a profile of Yang Yilin indicating she too was 14, the Times reported.

 

In turn, the Chinese have produced documentation that satisfies the International Olympic Committee, a fact that does not surprise Canadian coach Tony Smith at all.

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