Chinese Gymnast Underage! I'm Shocked!
So after seeing two men disqualified for touching a line in the 200m, you would think something like breaking a bright-line rule about age would be enough to get the IOC involved. Don't count on it. The IOC has looked at the girl's passport, issued in February and listing her birthday as Jan 1, and that is all they can do. Their hands are tied. I wonder if they are going to start letting countries do their own roid testing, too. "Sorry folks, the Chinese Government says that Hu Hulk is totally clean, and they have the documents to prove it. . . "
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I am always surprised at the age of the Asian co-workers I have had...but I'll admit those girls do seem super young. One man I worked with looked like a 8 year old boy, and he was 21, and he wasn't even a gymnast.
That is the first thing I thought. Study after study shows that cross-racial identification (and I assume age-guessing) is pretty unreliable. But there is plenty of documentation showing these girls are way too young.
Amen, I have been so bugged by the way the Chinese have handled a few things during the Olympics. I'm STILL mad about the poor little girl that was deemed "unfit" to sing their national anthem during Opening Ceremonies. uuggh. Maybe if they (the government) actually gave a rip about the people who inhabit their country they wouldn't have to spend so much time and effort lying to everyone about how great it is--maybe the "regular" people would feel like telling the world about their homeland instead of running from the camera for fear they they will lose their home, job, or heaven forbid "family reputation." gag me.
Oh, and BTW, Lachlan thinks that Brian William's name is "China". Whenever she sees him on TV she says, "hey, there's China!" We've overshot on our expectations of understanding.
My driver's License says I live on "Anthoullette" Lane, I weigh 140 pounds and that I am a blond . . . it's not very hard to get mis-information on government documents here ...
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