Does anyone else think the Chinese women gymnasts are too young under the rules  

I noticed the gymnasts as well and a couple of the girls were no where near fourteen. There was one and when my husband said she looked twelve, I said fourteen. I did see one girl who was sixteen, but I could tell a lot of the girls were no where near fifteen. I mean they were almost flat and their faces were too young. Oh I used to live in Vancouver, B.C. and there were a lot of Chinese there so I can tell if someone is pretending to be older. I do think that if they find out that these girls are not sixteen, the Olympic Committee should take away their gold medals.
How can anyone compete against someone underage whose bones have not hardened as of yet and can bend themselves back farther than a regular sixteen to twenty year old?
It is unfair.
But what do you expect from a Communist country where the State owns the people.

I watched saw the girls on TV and many of them could not have been of proper age.

Rewind, fast forward, even pause on the DVD could not make me believe that they were of proper age.

I hope that I am wrong, because cheating in the Olympics is just foul.

When it comes to China, nothing and I mean nothing surprises me. Their past reputation has shown that they have no morals. Look at what they did with the singer girls. That just takes the cake from me.

I agree. There was one Chinese gymnast in particular who doesn't look close to being 16 regardless what her passport says. My daughter looks older than she does and my daughter is only 10. It also wouldn't be the first time China lied about a performance. Look what happened with that little girl singing in the opening ceremony. It was actually another girl singing backstage while the one on TV was lipsyncing. When I heard that China lost all credibility when saying that all the gymnasts were at least 16. If it does turn out that they weren't 16 they should lose any medals they received for gymnastics.

I didn't see the Olympic's this year but I've read quite a bit about it and there does seem to be some issues with the age of some of the girls. I think there should be a national center where ppl competing have to register and they should have to provide some kind of proof of their age other than just their say-so that they are of age. A phsical will give most Dr's a good idea of a persons age just by bone development.

I also think that once it is found out that they broke the rules then they should have to give up any medals and the person/persons involved should be banned from competing again.

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