Update from "Sugar and Spice"FINALLY!
The IOC is finally jumping on the worldwide bandwagon concerning the underage issue of the Chinese Gymnastic team!
On August 2nd, the IOC had announced that they would not be investigating the team members.
On August 21st (today), the IOC announced that they WOULD be investigating He Kexin and Yang Yilin after new evidence surfaced. Better late than never, I guess.
It turns out that a hacker was able to unearth some pretty convincing documents:
The widely publicized blog site by hacker “stryde.hax” has detailed documents found in search engine caches that suggest He Kexin's real birth year to be 1994. All of the links to the documents have been rapidly disappearing from live sites, sparking concerns of internet censorship.
-The Epoch Times
Heck, investigate them all. I bet they're all 13 or 14!
More information from DJ Technocrat's site:
A determined U.S. computer expert has delved into cached pages on the Internet to unearth Chinese official documents showing a gymnast who took gold in the uneven bars competition, edging the U.S.'s Nastia Liukin, may indeed be underage.
Controversy over whether He Kexin is under the minimum age of 16 has surrounded her participation in the Beijing Olympics. The latest challenge over the age of the tiny Olympian comes from the discovery through a cyberspace maze of Chinese official documents listing her date of birth.
She may not look as if she has reached the minimum competing age of 16, but China said her passport, issued in February, gives her birthday as Jan. 1, 1992. The International Olympic Committee said proof from her passport is good enough.
The latest unofficial investigation was carried out by computer security expert for the Intrepidus Group, whose site, Stryde Hax, revealed a detailed forensic search for He’s age.
First he simply tried Google, only to find that an official listing by the Chinese sports administration that had given her age could no longer be accessed. Then he tried the Google cache, only to find that He’s name had been removed.
Finally, he tried the cache of Chinese search engine Baidu. There, he found that Baidu lists two spreadsheets in He's name, both giving her date of birth as January 1, 1994 — making her 14 years and 220 days old and too young to compete at the Beijing games.
The lists were compiled by the General Administration of Sport of China.
After that tiebreaker snafu with Liukin and Kexin, this just tops the cake. I hope the IOC strips the Chinese Gymnastics Team of their medals.
posted by isadanceaholic at Thursday, August 21, 2008
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No real surprise here. Cheating has been rampant in gymnastics for decades. Well, if they're able to verify that she's too young, just treat her like all the other Olympic cheaters: strip her of her medals as well as her entire team's gold medal. Sucks for the gymnasts on the Chinese team that didn't cheat and aren't aware of her actual age, but as we saw with Marion Jones the entire team is stripped of their medals.
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You expect any government anywhere to tell the truth, if they think they can get away with lying? Think Iranian dud missiles.
The freedom of the press is the only reason the US gub'ment is as clean as it is. Thanks to the founding fathers for the First Amendment.
Take Putin's Russia, which is lying blatantly about Georgia, no matte what the evidence
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No surprise here- how many 16-year olds have baby-teeth? I'm glad they are finally investigating it.
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"The freedom of the press is the only reason the US gub'ment is as clean as it is. Thanks to the founding fathers for the First Amendment."
Umm... you must be blindly living in a fantasy world.
It's just as corrupt as any other government in the world, they're just good at making it legal and/or covering it up.
And keep Putin's Russia out of it... 'cause the current president is Medvedev....
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>>It's just as corrupt as any other government in the world, they're just good at making it legal and/or covering it up.<<
Actually it is not as corrupt as most places in the world. Is it perfect? Not at all.
Not that the Bush administration is not trying to make it more corrupt.
The press in the USA is actually pretty good at exposing the lies and illegalities of the government, and preventing cover ups. Remember that Nixon was not fired for the break in at Watergate, he was fired for the cover up.
The American courts are also independant enough that the Bush administration seems to loose nearly every court case when challenged on some of it most egregious actions like the prison at Gitmo. The courts in Russia seem to just do the bidding of the government: think Gazprom vs BP.
And journalists investigating the government in the USA seldom turn up dead, unlike journalists in Russia like Anna Politkovskaya and Paul Klebnikov.
>>And keep Putin's Russia out of it... 'cause the current president is Medvedev....<<
I know who the president of Russia is, but it is pretty clear Prime Minister Putin still run things. Who was first on the scene when Russian invaded Georgia?
Oops sorry, when Russia defended the peaceful peasants of South Ossetia from the illegal unprovoked attack by the imperialistic capitalistic US puppet bourgeois running dogs in Tbilisi.
Lets not forget: "Isvestia ni Pravda, i Pravda ni Isvetia."
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No real surprise here. Cheating has been rampant in gymnastics for decades. Well, if they're able to verify that she's too young, just treat her like all the other Olympic cheaters: strip her of her medals as well as her entire team's gold medal. Sucks for the gymnasts on the Chinese team that didn't cheat and aren't aware of her actual age, but as we saw with Marion Jones the entire team is stripped of their medals.