Thursday, August 14, 2008

Amidst the Olympic Brou-ha-ha

It should be noted that the two members of the Chinese women's gymnastics team are almost certainly too young to be competing. The minimum age is 16, and both were listed in media reports repeatedly over the last few years as being around two years younger.

The Chinese, of course, issued them fake passports. The IOC says that a government passport is "significant proof of age." That basically means that any government that wants to break age rules can do so simply by issuing their gymnasts false passports.

This makes me angry.

1 Comments:

Blogger Juanis Chanis said...

well, what are they supposed to do? it's the host country, for crying out loud. The Olympics are based on the idea of fair competition; I mean, they have to take that as the basis, or else who would judge the competitions?

6:01 PM

 

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