if this is true, what image does china take from the olympic games?

[timtim]

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/summer08/gymnastics/news/story?id=3534544

are their gymnasts underage? i bet more comes of this and soon.

a tourist is murdered.

the city is a polluted mess.

the games are empty.

does this set china and its communist regime back in the eyes of the world?

 

[gotmilk]

even Perk thinks those girls are too young

 

[stosstruppe]

Not really seeing what the big deal is. Like I said in another thread the UK is using a 14 year old for its synchronised diving team.

 

[timtim]

Not really seeing what the big deal is. Like I said in another thread the UK is using a 14 year old for its synchronised diving team.

clear rules in gymnastics for girls, they must be 16. the older the girls the less limber and more "developed" making the exercises much harder to complete. full blown cheating.

as a host country i would have figured they would have wanted to send a message of "look at us" to the world. they are sending a "look at us and please dont judge" message to me.

 

[stosstruppe]

clear rules in gymnastics for girls, they must be 16. the older the girls the less limber and more "developed" making the exercises much harder to complete. full blown cheating.

as a host country i would have figured they would have wanted to send a message of "look at us" to the world. they are sending a "look at us and please dont judge" message to me.

Even if it is true, they (the Chinese) are merely capitalising on a natural physiological fact that younger athletes generally have better suppleness. I really don't see anything wrong with this as opposed to the hundreds of athletes using doping techniques, steroids etc to enhance performance.

Ya, other than being a stupid rule, I got nothing other than opinion

 

[timtim]

Even if it is true, they (the Chinese) are merely capitalising on a natural physiological fact that younger athletes generally have better suppleness. I really don't see anything wrong with this as opposed to the hundreds of athletes using doping techniques, steroids etc to enhance performance.

Ya, other than being a stupid rule, I got nothing other than opinion

dopers get their medals taken away. so if cheating by using younger athletes they are on par with dopers and should have their golds taken away. do you agree?

 

[calveless wonder]

Even if it is true, they (the Chinese) are merely capitalising on a natural physiological fact that younger athletes generally have better suppleness. I really don't see anything wrong with this as opposed to the hundreds of athletes using doping techniques, steroids etc to enhance performance.

Ya, other than being a stupid rule, I got nothing other than opinion

uh, thats clear cut cheating. no other way to look at it.

 

[stosstruppe]

dopers get their medals taken away. so if cheating by using younger athletes they are on par with dopers and should have their golds taken away. do you agree?

For consistency's sake yea, but then I'd change the rules to allow for younger athletes & drug use because I don't consider it any different to using fancy swim suits to improve your times.

 

[needtogetarmy]

China is ahead in the medal count and way ahead in gold.

They country is going through growing pains but it is just a bump in the road to a new empire. I just read GE just sold 3 billion dollars of alternative energy projects to the Chinese. They recognize their problems and they are fixing it. Just like the Japanese in the 1960's, they are going to alter that technology, make it better, and put GE out of business just like the Japs did to the US television, semiconductor, (and so on) industries.

 

[jackangel]

olympics = mostly meh.

not exactly inspired by china, but who cares. the giant is awakening.