China's olympic gymnastics team..?

Question

how did china get away with having their female gymnasts underage? because those girls are NOT 16.

Answer 1

Ugh I dont Know!! They dont look 16 but I mean the physical altercation that this takes on there body is unbelievable. Unlike america they start training at 3 and that is serious training that a 14 year old would do here. I mean I am all for USA and they dont look 16 but its just hard to say

Answer 2

they aren't. there's proof that 2 of the girls are only 14. china would falsify passports for them, since they are so crazy with their gymnasts.

i mean come on. look at the barrettes in their hair. they look like they belong on a 5 year old. not a '16' year old!

Answer 3

It is outrageous.  

Answer 4

i know a 12-year-old who weighs 8 pounds more and is two inches taller than 1 of them, that 12-year-old i know should start driving

Answer 5

Both Yang and Jiang — and their teammate He Kexin — have been at the center of age falsification questions leading up to this Olympics. Some Chinese sports registration lists have shown that those gymnasts may not be old enough to compete at the Games.  IOC should have investigated this thoroughly rather than accepting only their passports as proof.

Edit: I just saw a report on Fox News that says the Chinese newspaper which is govt. regulated has article that they have documents that show one of the girls was 13 last year so she is 14 now. Since this is from a Chinese journalist in their own newspaper it will be interesting to see what happens now.

Answer 6

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 7

Do you have proof they're not 16?  I go back to China every other year, and in general, the girls in China look younger than they do here around that age.  Don't ask rhetorical questions.

Answer 8

i can never understood why it matters, if your good enough what should age matter?