May 12th, 2011 | ethics, Olympics
Get ready for a stream of rumours regarding underage Chinese gymnasts leading up to the London Olympics.
They cheated before. Are they cheating again?
? That will be the story line from Bela and others.
Young looking girls from Japan and Russia (PHOTO), for example, are not so closely scrutinized. We trust that those more open societies do not systematically alter birth dates as China and North Korea, for two, have done.
? Somebody should approach Dong Fangxiao for a book deal on what she remembers about the lead-up to the 2000 Olympics.
Xiao Fang Dong, 25, was last year stripped of an Olympic medal for being underaged.
She is now head coach at Rotorua?s Mid-Island Gym Sports club, teaching women?s artistic gymnastics. ?
She retired from competitive gymnastics in 2001 after a hip injury, and later worked as a gymnastics judge at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Although she was awarded a bronze medal at the 2000 Olympics, Ms Dong was later found to be only 14 when she competed, instead of the minimum age of 16, and her medal was revoked. ?
read more from New Zealand ? The Daily Post
She?s the only Chinese gymnast so far found guilty of competing underage. But she knows of at least one more.
I?d buy that book.
Source: http://gymnasticscoaching.com/new/2011/05/chinese-gymnasts-innocent-until-proven-guilty/
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