Is anyone watching the Gymnastics competition? I am. I am poorly disgusted with the scoring. SOme of the gymnast not from the US are being scored extremely high with more mistakes. There is also the possiblity of questions over a chinese Gymnast age. This age was reported on a chinese website that has her age much younger than 16. I think this is going a bit too far.
The scores are too low in some instances and too high on some of them. I can see a bias towards the chinese. The passport can be faked. I mean they give them all the same birth date essentially. You tell me. There should be a dental and other tests to prove age as well.
You look at the faces and can see it. He (a chinese female gymnast) is not 16 especially in th e face. Look at some of the other athletes. You can tell they look their age. These girls do not.
There has to be a way of protesting the scoring.
Another thing is the baseball game. The chinese manager thought that US manager should have been thrown out too. But its batters were deliberately hitting players one of whom got blopped upside the head. That player had a concussion.
One of the chinese problems it had a catcher injured but he was blatently if you look at the photo blocking the plate. That was not right either.
Also the opening ceremonies, you might as well for get that one. The replacement of the singer because she wasnt cute visually but use the voice...... Get real.
I once went to pick my sister up from school and a teacher told me I needed to go to the front office. When I questioned him, he escorted me there and told me to stay seated. After asking why I thought I was above the dress code and what class I was supposed to be in I informed him I was not a middle school student. At the time, I was 22.
You cannot, at all, tell someone's age by looking at their face.
If you're going to make a lot of accusations against the non-US teams, it would probably be best to back up your claims with a link to some kind of news story... any kind of source of information at all. I haven't been paying attention to the Olympics, but I really doubt the events are being scored unfairly, with preference being given to non-US teams.
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I plan to. I will find the exact chinese link page. It is there.
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90779/90867/6416685.html
This is a story that has been on blog after blog. This is not just my words saw. I have proof to back it u p. I had to get the conversation started some. I will do what you think.
"Olympic gymnastics title contenders suddenly have one more thing to worry about other than the eight gold medals China claimed at the Tianjin World Cup last week. Her name is He Kexin.
The 14-year-old newcomer to the national team, who was recruited last year, has raised a lot of eyebrows recently after she broke two world records on the uneven bars in as many months. She will be just one more weapon on an already star-studded Chinese Olympic squad."
source comes from above link.
This is unfair. Read the entire story
http://gymnasticsnstuff.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/the-he-kexin-age-debate...
This is the source where I got my link. It has more of the discussion. I think you should look at what others said. I thought the romainings and russians were better in quality than the chinese. This has one of the discussions where is talked that it was later revealed in 2000 that another chinese gymnast was only 14 while still competiting. You have to be 16 in the olympic year. You tell me.
Here is another blog on the same subject
http://gymnasticsnstuff.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/thoughts-on-the-age-dis...
Here is the debate on the USATODAY. I am not the only one
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/beijing/gymnastics/2008-08-14-gy...
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