Is anyone shocked by this news?
An x-ray analysis of the bones of competitors in the Youth Games in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong discovered that 3,000 of the 15,000 athletes, or 20 per cent, had misrepresented their age.
Two thousand of them were too old to be eligible for youth competition, while one offender was seven years older than he claimed.
Suspicions of age-faking have dogged Chinese sport and caused embarrassment for China during last year's Olympic Games in Beijing. He Kexin, a gold medal-winning gymnast was investigated by the International Olympic Committee after being accused of being only 14 years old and ineligible.
Although Miss He was eventually cleared by the IOC, suspicions linger on and Bruno Grandi, the president of the International Gymnastics Federation recently gave an interview to the German press in which he said that there was "strong circumstantial evidence" of age falsification by the Chinese.
Steps are being taken to prevent a repeat at next year's Asia games. What happened in Beijing has so tainted Chinese sports, its going to be awfully hard to accept anyone's word that age shenanigans won't be happening there also.
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Comments (3)
At first I thought this was... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Mac Lorry | March 13, 2009 8:13 AM | Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
At first I thought this was the caption contest photo. What a relief to find it's only about another communist nation cheating in sports. It's a good thing they only cheat in sports, otherwise, we would see cheating in trade practices and the use of chemicals to fool product tests. It's also good to know Beijing is not building up its military to invade Taiwan.
1. Posted by Mac Lorry | March 13, 2009 8:13 AM |
Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2009 08:13
2. Posted by OLDPUPPYMAX | March 13, 2009 11:19 AM | Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Anyone having a difficult time believing that communist thugs would cheat only has to look at ACORN and the rest of the democrat party!
2. Posted by OLDPUPPYMAX | March 13, 2009 11:19 AM |
Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2009 11:19
3. Posted by glenn | March 13, 2009 11:21 AM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
Sounds like high school sports in the USA.
3. Posted by glenn | March 13, 2009 11:21 AM |
Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2009 11:21