Are the USA media sore-loser that China won Gymnast-Team GOLD medal????

Question

did the chinese cheat? no

did the chinese use drugs? no

Wasn't the USA team leading and ONLY have themselves to blame for falling at the final gymnastic apparatus and virtually handed the GOLD to china?

So why being a sore loser and blame the chinese?

learn to grow up Americans, the world isn't owned by whites.

Answer 1

Oh I'm not mad about the USA getting Silver. I'm happy that they got a medal.  I mean our girl did fall off the beam and then fell again on the floor as well I think all three girls went out of bounds when doing their floor exercise. So the USA girls didn't bring their A game.

In 1996 when the games were in Atlanta we had a dramatic win in the ladies gymnastics, I don't have problem with China having a proud moment for their ladies to win in their home country. The Chinese team is strong they were really good. I enjoyed one of those girls floor exercises she really did a good job.

I know a lot of people are saying that you can't go off looks I'm 29 and people think that I'm 20 just by looking at me. I get a lot of you're mature for your age, until they find out I'm almost 30. I take care of myself. But seriously that little girl does look to me like she is 9 or 10 I don't care if I sound like a hypocrite, but she really doesn't look 16 to me.

Answer 2

Exactly.

And now they are even crying out loud that Spaniards made fun of Chinamen eyes...

What do they care?

Answer 3

I can see your side, and the other side--I'm a gymnast, and the U.S.A. are the reigning world champion gymnasts...the Chinese were not competing more difficult routines than we were, yet they were scoring higher than us, and I couldn't see any difference in the routines, me being able to see deductions and so forth. China beat us on beam when they had one or two falls and we had one fall. China had very wobbly routines on beam, and ours were fine besides our fall and one minor wobble, yet they beat us on beam. I do not understand how they were scoring higher, and I think that's basically what other people are thinking too. I guess we just weren't seeing the deductions the judges were, or we were over-confident. Either way, I see both sides of this issue and personally was on the "sore-loser" side. That's a good arguement.

Answer 4

These girls definitely are under the age limit to compete.  The Chinese government has a rule that everyone has to be "essential" to the success of the country. Children are sent away to "sports factories" by their parents in order to learn diving, swimming, gymnastics, tennis and other sports. If not, they are sent to military schools to join the Red People's Army.

At the "sports factories", they live the sport they are "forced" to excel at and nothing else matters until they are released back to their parents, which is only when they "retire" from that sport to become a baby breeding machine after marriage.

Americans, on the other hand, have lives, can freely go to the mall or visit their friends, can say bad things about the government without fear of reprisals, do not get punished if they make mistakes while performing, don't eat dogs, can grow up doing whatever they want to do, visit the gym whenever they want, can leave the gym to go home to their parents, do not get kidnapped and brought to "reprogramming" centers, are more creative in gymnastics and don't need to cheat by having a communist country's government strong arm the judges by intentionally having them delay results while other athletes are awaiting their start time and falsifying birth documents

Answer 5

I think most of us agree China deserved it.

Stop adding to the Chinese-American rivalry fire. Both nations have bonds and those bonds will keep getting stronger unless people liken you keep interfering.

Go Team USA!

Answer 6

I am an American and I completely agree with you.

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Answer 7

Of course we handed the gold medal to China, this is got to be the biggest choke in Olympics history. How on earth could the best player fall off the beam and the floor at the same time? That just makes no sense. What were the odds of that happening? China got lucky, period.

Answer 8

The evidence and the concern about China CHEATING by using underage girls surfaced BEFORE the games even began! Note the dates on these articles:

From the New York Times:

"In Chinese newspaper profiles this year, He was listed as 14, too young for the Beijing Games.

"The Times found two online records of official registration lists of Chinese gymnasts that list He’s birthday as Jan. 1, 1994, which would make her 14. A 2007 national registry of Chinese gymnasts — now blocked in China but viewable through Google cache — shows He’s age as '1994.1.1.'

"Another registration list that is unblocked, dated Jan. 27, 2006, and regarding an 'intercity' competition in Chengdu, China, also lists He’s birthday as Jan. 1, 1994. That date differs by two years from the birth date of Jan. 1, 1992, listed on He’s passport, which was issued Feb. 14, 2008.

"The other gymnast, Jiang, is listed on her passport — issued March 2, 2006 — as having been born on Nov. 1, 1991, which would make her 16 and thus eligible to compete at the Beijing Games.

"A different birth date, indicating Jiang is not yet 15, appears on a list of junior competitors from the Zhejiang Province sports administration. The list of athletes includes national identification card numbers into which birth dates are embedded. Jiang’s national card number as it appears on this list shows her birth date as Oct. 1, 1993, which indicates that she will turn 15 in the fall, and would thus be ineligible to compete in the Beijing Games."

An admission of cheating in 2000:

"Yang Yun of China won individual and team bronze medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and later said in an interview on state-run television that she had been 14 at the time of those Games. A Hunan Province sports administration report also said later that she had been 14 when she competed in Sydney."

China's People's Daily newspaper stating He Kexin's age as 14 on May 23, 2008:

"Olympic gymnastics title contenders suddenly have one more thing to worry about other than the eight gold medals China claimed at the Tianjin World Cup last week. Her name is He Kexin.

"The 14-year-old newcomer to the national team, who was recruited last year, has raised a lot of eyebrows recently after she broke two world records on the uneven bars in as many months. She will be just one more weapon on an already star-studded Chinese Olympic squad."

Answer 9

I could care less that we got the silver, the thing that bothers me the most is that China is breaking the rules, the IOC should investigate as they did when the canadians lost the pairs skating medal to the russians, when it was questioned that there was a scandal.  The IOC is terrified of offending China, the host country, who are ridiculously trying th impress the world with the olympics. Personally I think the olympics should never be in a country that is communist. china is very shady, which is why I question the ages of the three gymnast, not to mention that two of them had missing teeth in pictures....that screams pre-teen (losing molars at 11-12 years old) to me. They are very very good gymnasts for their age, I have to give China that, I can see why they wanted them to compete, but there are rules, that should be followed.

Answer 10

Whether China cheated or not, the US could have done better.  End of story.

Answer 11

you are totally right can't say it any better especially the last sentence

Don't hate the player hate the game

Answer 12

China won fair and square, no problem there. Since you brought up sore losers, why do many out there accuse SUPERSTAR swimmer Phelps of taking steroids or other performing enhancing drugs, you can't have it both ways...

Answer 13

The Chinese didn't cheat. I'm just wondering that why didn't the Americans do a good job? They looked down on the Chinese and underestimated them and that's why they didn't win the gold medal.  

Answer 14

my friend i admire your intelligence, well put China deserved and the Russian lady or whatever and the US is just looked for excuses to strip CHina of their medal and give it to the US when all in all THEY GOT SLIVER how many people, will you meet that can say I won silver at the olympics  

Answer 15

i agree with u that the media are sore losers.. especially the ones using Alicia Sacramone as a scapegoat to US not getting the gold.

fact is the us team could have done better but overall they still did a fantastic job and brought home the silver medal which the other teams, beside china, couldn't do.

Answer 16

I agree dude  China thought them a lesson !!!

Answer 17

there are going to be sore losers and rumors regardless. I was rooting for China anyway (because I'm Chinese) but I still love the USA. There was little doubt China was going to win in gymnastics. But USA also has their share of gold metals, so I think people should be happy for them.

Answer 18

The chinese did a very very good job in the final and they were quite a pleasure to watch! I'm a little concerned about these reports regarding the ages not meeting olympic requirements but if it turns out that they are indeed old enough then they do deserve that win - they are very talented.. Its a shame that the U.S. had a few bad moments though because they were also very good.