Chineese cheating in gymnastics in olympics.?

Question

I watched the olympic womens gymnastics competition x amount of days ago and thought that some of the girls on the chineese gymnastics team were not nearly old enough to be in the olympics. In the olympics there is a rule that you must be at least 16 to compete in the gymnastics competition, and about 3-4 of the chineese did not look a day older than 13. (prepubescant.) what are your thoughts on this?

Answer 1

I definitley think that the chinese girls are not 16 but the chinese team is not admitting this fact

Answer 2

Well many people posted this question up already but give China a break, they always wanted the olympics to be held in their country and their dreams came true. Even though the chinese gymnastics look younger then 16, the girls are happy to win a medal. Maybe there wasn't enough 16 and over gymnastics out there. So it really doesn't matter to me, plus they're not cheating. Anyways there are people investigating the situation.

Answer 3

And how many times has this been asked.....??

Please go look up your questions before posting something thats been posted like a million times.

Oh and zippy,i hope you know that they dont get any money for competing,its a communist country.

I doubt they even get to keep there medal.

China doesnt pay their athletes,half of them are forced to play.

Answer 4

I know one of them they are looking into her age.  

Answer 5

All I know is that Americans should win Gold in the whining and crying competition. It's not the Chinese girls' fault that your gymnasts are garbage compared to them. The Chinese have always dominated in the gymnastics competition. Who the fawk is USA?

Answer 6

Read this: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26337759/

Keyword: "old passport".  They have competed or trained abroad before, and it would have other countries visas in them.  Don't think that can be faked.

But I am sure the naysayers will say that it's been planned since years ago, that's why they faked the old passport too.

And my answer to that would be, who would've known years ago that which girls will have the most skill in 2008 during qualification and competition?

Answer 7

dude there are already a thousand questions on this topic. give it a rest.

Answer 8

yeah they are investigating it already. and they will be stripped of thier medals.

Answer 9

While I don't think there should be an age requirement on the sport, there is and the Chinese obviously fudged the ages of half the team. Sad that they felt the need to cheat.

If the IOC does it's job, they will strip the team of all their medals. Of course, that will just give them more reason to whine and say the West is out to get them and are jealous of their superiority.

Answer 10

YELLOW

Answer 11

I absolutely think at least one and maybe many are underage.  You probably know that a birth certificate has been dug up for one showing she is well underage and the IOC is beginning an investigation. But I also think the tragedy is that when an entire government is completely and comprehensively backing the cheating some of it may never be discovered. If the Chinese government literally went back and fixed her birth records, birth certificate and everything how is someone going to prove her age?  Probably all official records are altered.  They only screwed up a bit in the one case that is being investigated but that simply shows them not to make that mistake in the future.

Everyone should compete under the same rules, that is one of the most basic principles of fair competition and the Chinese government clearly does not want to adhere to that.

Answer 12

Ok, so when and if it is proven that the Chinese officials cheated and are dishonored, will they have to commit suicide as per tradition? Or will they cheat their way out of that too? :)

Answer 13

At this point, nearly everyone knows about it already. Even the IOC has decided to do a private investigation into their ages.

Do a search on yahoo answers and you'll literally find thousands of questions that brings up this exact topic.

Answer 14

s***w my original answer-now I know why they should be stripped of their medals!

Answer 15

Zippy, seriously, you cheat in the Olympics and you get your medal stripped.  That's the only fair thing to do.

How on earth is letting cheaters keep their medals fair to people that have trained for all their lives, spend untold thousands and sacrificed. Sends a terrible message to kids too.

Answer 16

hahaahhaa.yeeahh

those ppl are correctt, this question has been asked a million times.

but ill give you my opinion on this.

I think if they found proof that those girls are underage then i think they should definitely do something about it, because they broke one of the important rules.

when i first started watching the gymnastic competition, i always thought to myself that those girls looked really young, before then i didn't know what age you had to be.

but that fact that they looked really young stood out.

WE all know that alot of those girls are infact not 16, 15, or not even 14.

we all can definitely tell cuz to me it doesn't look like they've done developing yet. body wise, and probably hasn't hit puberty yet.

Answer 17

I totally agree! The girls that were not 16 and over should be stripped of their medals and the silver medalists should take the gold.

Answer 18

My thoughts are this topic has been beaten to death on here and if you had searched you would have found more info than you would ever need on this subject.

Answer 19

People need to chill already. The IOC is now investigating all of this so we'll find out.

Answer 20

here we go again

Answer 21

They are obviously underage, it's only a matter of time until the truth comes out. You can see my Q/A about it w/ pic of the obviously young one here: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

My proposal is to kick China out of the Olympics and take all their medals away for this deception.

Take a look at this pic - does she look a few months shy of 17 as stated????? Do they think we're idiots? Hasn't even gone through puberty.

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Olympics/2008B...