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Bloggers Nail China On Olympian Age Lies
David Utter
Staff Writer
2008-08-15
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China's Olympic gymnasts consist of athletes under the permitted age of competition, as illustrated at length by a number of hard-charging online sources.
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Proving the Chinese Olympic overlords of straightforward gross dishonesty about the ages of their star gymnasts became the focus of several people, some of whom looked no farther than a Google cache to find evidence of shenanigans in Beijing.
The kerfuffle started when a trio of China's finest young women gymnasts took gold. Protests that the tiny tumblers were a little too young for the global stage of the Olympics swiftly began. The cowardly International Olympic Committee brushed off the complaints.
People on the Internet did not. The Huffington Post showed what a little digging could turn up regarding the truth about gymnasts like He Kexin.
In one example, a China Daily article posted on May 23, 2008 gave her age as 14. The same article now lists her age as an Olympic-appropriate 16.
Gateway Pundit found more examples. In one case, articles published online about gymnast Yang Yilin showed her birthdate as August 26, 1993. Now, her official biography lists the year as 1992.
There's virtually zero chance the IOC will take such evidence and require China to forfeit its ill-gotten medals. But if someone there wants to make an issue of it, the proof is a click or two away.
About the Author:
David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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