Do you think the IOC will investigate the Chinese girls' ages?

Question

I was just wondering how many of you think the IOC will actually go into a real investigation about the chinese gymnasts girls ages?

And if they do,what will happen to the girls and the medals?

Will the girls be banned from competing,or will they be able to compete when they are of age?

Answer 1

nothing is going to come from the investigation.  Short of carbon dating or taking a bone out if the girl to examine how are you going to prove someone's age?  Only way age can be proven is documents, and if the chinese government is issuing official documents with fake birthdates what other proof could you use to disprove it.  

Answer 2

they are investigating now.

Answer 3

The IOC are already investigating  the chinese gymnasts ages. If the IOC finds that they are underaged, the medals from they're individual competions will definatley be taken away. Im not so sure of they're team medals though. The girls will be able to compete when they do come of age.

Answer 4

yes  

Answer 5

They said they are investigating it now. Whether anything comes of it or not is another story. If they do find out the girls are underage, they will lose their team as well as individual medals for it.

As for the whiny American comment, it was a CHINESE newspaper that pointed out the one girl was only 13 last year. I don't know about your math skills, but here in America, you can't go from 13 to 16 in the span of one year.

Answer 6

They are investigating now. Let's just hope it is not a charade, to make it look like they are really investigating. We all know IOC is spineless when it comes to China.

Answer 7

no proof, let it rest

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0...

Answer 8

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 9

Suppose it turns out they are underage, don't you think it will be more embarrassing to those who finished second and third, being beaten by inexperienced gymnasts?

Answer 10

still no proof, they will make an announcement on friday

Answer 11

They're already investigating it.. didn't they find something too?

The underage girls will be stripped of their medals and probably the gymnasts that got silver will then get gold and the bronze girl will get silver and vice versa.

They will probably be disqualified, yeah until they are 16.  

Answer 12

Right now they're saying that so far there is no evidence that they are underaged. That could be interpretted in two ways. 1) They want to get the h**l out of communist territory before they start stripping medals, OR 2) they have no intention of doing any serious investigation.

This is not difficult to investigate. The existence of old documents showing conflicts in He's birthday is sufficient. This shows that the Chinese authorities were either dishonest then or dishonest now. And China does have a track record of lying about athletes' ages.

If this olympics was not going to be in China, sanctions would have already been in place banning China from gymnastics for a period of time. Let's hope that they wait till they get out of China to really launch a serious investigation.

Anyone who is honest knows that those girls are underage.  

Answer 13

IOC has already said there's no proof and that this will be put to rest. Why are you whiny Americans so concerned with China?

Answer 14

Yes, but it will do know good China had good people working  on the forged paper work!

Answer 15

Um, they ARE investigating.

If one is found to be underage, s/he will be stripped of all her medals, and the team medal, if she competed.

Answer 16

i think its stupid, to join the olympics you should be an adult.

Answer 17

i think they'll sweept it under the rug and hope that everyone forgets it

Answer 18

IOC: Underage gymnasts

Olympic chiefs on Friday (Aug.22nd.) claimed that there was still no proof that anyone cheated over the ages of several members of China's women gymnasts.