China busted, IOC shrugs
How many “16″-year-olds do you know who still have baby teeth?!
Jim Hoft follows the trail of the whitewashed ages of the Chinese female gymnasts.
Here’s the response from the International Olympic Committee:
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Trust me, it’s deeper than this. Their advances in swimming and gymnastics have mirrored the “coaching” – read doping – they received from the East Germans in the ’90s. They are cheaters on several levels. Nothing like a state apparatus to ensure victory. Their gold medals are a sham.
If any “adult” athlete is found to have taken a performance enhancer, then call out the inquisitors. China, substitutes babies for adults?… never mind!
Somehow blatant cheating, past Americans with their golds stripped for doping, and cheating French(?) ice-skating judges have just left me uninterested in the Olympics this time.
This is why I don’t bother watching the Olympics anymore.
Now, now, Michelle, you DON’T cross the communists. Especially 1 billion look-alikes with no individuality who could all be issued a gun.
These are China’s olympics after all…what would you expect. Did anyone see the IOC president Bush about coming into town with six shooters blazing? (or something along those lines)
We were watching here, and from the get go called B.S. on the age.
as my good friend feebz said….
“Cheater Cheater Pumpkin Eater”
lmao.
First, this should come as absolutely no surprise. The Chinese treat rules and treaties like toilet paper.
I can’t get the IOC’s response but I assume its some platitudes that go something like this, “Well, it’s OK, because China is a developing nation.” Hmmm… Maybe I am confusing that with the attitude the International “community” takes toward China and pollution; meh, no matter.
In any event, why exactly is there a rule that competitors have to be 18? What’s wrong with allowing a minor who is THAT good the right to compete? Am I missing something?
What’s the point in having rules if they aren’t enforced? Of course, our own government can’t enforce our immigration laws, so why should an impotent Olympic Committee be any different? Let’s all just do anything we want.
Please! Think of the children! /sarc off
China will do everything in their power to win, including doping and issue fake passports.
No shock to the rest of sane America and the what little is left of sanity in the rest of the world.
Now, now, communists don’t cheat. Look at the pictures, they’re old enough to wear eye make up.
Their only BABIES! What a Lib would be saying.
Hey, but what else can we expect from a country who tells a child she is not attractive enough to sing the country’s national anthem on global television?
The IOC is really doing its best to compete with the UN for the gold medal in worthless foreign institutions.
On August 14th, 2008 at 11:29 am, b-cat said:
Now, now, communists don’t cheat. Look at the pictures, they’re old enough to wear eye make up.
And carry a AK-47
ROFL, i heard something along those lines…
Like, he’s all Yosemite Sam, arms akimbo, pistols shootin’ and everything!
funny stuff
In gynastic’s the age is 16. The reason is to prevent injuries.
sambo:
Ahh OK then. That does makes sense. Thank you.
Rule!? Rules!? We don’t need no stinking rules!
We have not had this much Olympic fun since 1936.
Hello? It’s China. I know no one was holding out high hopes for their honesty on this or anything else, right?
The IOC is about as useful as the UN.
Let’s see….
fake fireworks
fake singers
fake ‘mist’ (sorry China, the world isn’t that stupid to believe that your pollution is mist)
fake athletes
fake freedoms
Is anyone actually shocked by any of this?!?!?! China’s “coming out party” is nothing but a farce that our idiot media is salivating over.
This sport is monitored – “vetted” very carefully:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQgTiqhPbw
Trained for war–Moves to move ground troops out of the way and to protect the rider…
Now it’s a sport with an artistic touch
Enjoy…..
Taylork,
Sorry, didn’t see your comment before posting mine…two great minds with a single thought!
It’s very hard to enforce the age requirements in Gymnastics. Using underage athletes is a common practice in Communist countries. That the IOC is complicit in this practice is disgusting.
Many people will dismiss the complaints by the US team regarding the age of half the Chinese women’s team as sour grapes. Unfortunately, this goes way beyond sour grapes. Recently, a Chinese athlete had admitted that she was underage when she competed in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. There were Chinese newspapers reporting that at least one of the Chinese women wasn’t 16 when she competed in a warm-up meet.
What I don’t understand is that if the Chinese really care about transparency and honesty in the Olympics, why don’t they offer up actual proof of eligibility? And I’m not talking passports that can be easily forged. It’s beginning to seem that either a) the IOC is not interested in fairness to satisfy the Chinese or b) they’re that stupid if they think that at least 3 of the Chinese women are 16.
Bela Karoli offered up a suggestion. If the IOC or international gymnastics community isn’t interested in upholdng the age requirement, then just do away with it. That way no one cheats and any female gymnast has a chance at competing.
I guess I should expect that from a wussyfied eurowinnie from Belgian.
Go pound commies Count Jacques Rogge.
Even with the underage thing, I watched the finals and the U.S. team beat themselves. Granted the judging was leaning towards the Chinese team, but they wobbled on the beam (one actually fell off) opening the door for the U.S. to win gold, and they had one fall off the beam (not that I’m critizing, because I couldn’t walk that beam much less do a back flip), but then two of the three stepped out of bounds on the floor. They had an opening and didn’t follow through.
Besides, if the Chinese kids are only 13 or 14 (or younger) and they are beating kids that are in their late teens, it’s even more impressive. IMHO
Aside from the fact that they are taken from their homes at 2 or 3 years old, and spend every waking moment training. And as soon as as they are too old to compete, they and their families are kicked to the curb.
Lol. When are you Westerners going to learn?
They are probably waiting for the games to end then they will, as quietly as possible, strip the medals from the Chinese.
I hope anyway.
How does this help Michelle’s (O)children?
In China, it’s called a 48th trimester abortion.
haha! crickets on the youtube!
Now, if Ali G or Borat was there, he’d get an interview with the IOC…
This happens in communist countries all the time. The deliberate lies of age on passports and birth certificates to compete on the international stage.
Did anyone expect anything more from a communist nation?
Cheating and deceiving is a way of life.
It’s obvious many of those Chinese gymnasts are 10-14 years old. Everyone knows it, but good luck getting anyone outside the US to care.
You forgot stealing, espionage, subversion and assasination.
Watch the other night… Obvious one little girl would be hard pressed to prove 12, let alone 16… At least two more 14ish… So blatant it was sad… The explain from the too afraid announcers China said their passports said they were all 16… Passports issued by CHINA…ANY QUESTIONS???
This is all about nothing. Haven’t you people heard of Chinese New Year. These girls have two birthdays each year. So of course they are old enough. We should apologize to our Chinese masters for doubting their wisdom.
Sarcasm OFF.
I’m shocked, shocked that underage girls are sneaked onto gymnastics teams. It wasn’t so long ago that fey sportscasters were exclaiming, “Bring on the pixies!” Without them, what are pedophile viewers to do?
Those Chinese could have a syringe full of steroids hanging out of their ass and the IOC would remain silent.
The ‘duh’ heard round the world… China cheats, what a shock!! And of course the IOC, being the unqualified chumps that they are, will not say a word.
It’s really a shame for these athletes; they train for years to compete in an event that has turned into an international punch-line.
IOC and UN both impotent, anti-freedom, anti-western life organizations. Time for the US and friends to get out of both and regroup for the sake of freedom in the world.
Of course, et. I forgot about Chinese arithmetic.
Remember when Iraq got banned from the Olympics n July due to political interference?
Why even bother making these rules if they’re going to be arbitrarily enforced?
our announcers remind me of 30 pcs favorite commercial the…
‘Sham wow! guy.
Bruno Grandi and Nelli Kim have made gymnastics what it is today – and to think I used to like Nelli Kim…
I would rather win a Silver medal than win the Gold dishonesly.
I personally have a conscience. The Chinese “government” doesn’t.
Too late for a boycott?
taylork, thats funny, considering our U.S Constitution is totally carpped on daily.
There are certain advantages on the womens side to be younger. If a 14 year old boy won in the mens competition…that would be impressive.
ditto that blame.
GEEZZZZZ If these girls were any younger, libs would be screaming for them to be aborted.
lol @ soap.
You mean they LIED to us?
Why, I’m just THUNDERSTRUCK.
I think we’re missing something.
China = Communist = Everyone is = anyway, duh!!,which translates to the participant is = to 14, which is = to 16 years old by default, which = no rules violation to begin with!
/sarc off
I miss the days of the East German “women”…sigh…
Like the UN, the IOC has become a refuge for despots, cheaters and other morally bankrupt figures.
I hope Chicago wins its bid for the Olympics and takes a financial beating.
#47
“Order now, becasue we can’t do this all day…”
It my new favorite commercial too (but I’m still waiting for the Obama/Kwami one to come out.
Problem is if this gymnastic competition were a military skirmish you’d be eating your guts for lunch.
It should tell you something about China fighting a war.
And we wonder why people are losing interest in the the Olympics?
The IOC has met their enemy, and it is them.
Where in the world is Matt Lauer? I know he’d get to the bottom of this! I’m confidant he’s over there right now doing some serious invest-uh-ma-gating…he’ll have those chineee confessin’ an apologizin’ in no time!
Can anyone explain to me why we keep playing against a stacked deck?
The real cheating is the children’s stolen lives. These kids are losing their lives at the age of 3-5 and they are trained like athletes that are much older. A body can only hold up under these conditions for so long. My own daughter is from China and she is just 3 and I can’t imagine allowing her to be in the situations the children are in in these videos.
An American adoptive mom who lives in China says that her daughter took gymnastics at the same Beijing center as 3 of the olympic medalists. She has a picture of her daughter in 2002 when her daughter is 9-10 years old and the medalists are 4-6 years old. Her daughter is now 15.
Check this link out to see how their gold medal winners are trained.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7NZ97gekZk
People actually care about the Olympics? It’s been a farce for years.
I’m 38 and still have a couple of my baby teeth. They’re fused to my jaw! Ha ha ha!
Has anybody besides my dog blamed all this on Michelle Malkin yet?
My collie says:
Too late for that. Aren’t those things made in China anyhow? Besides, their government officials already look like Chuckie dolls to me.
This is probably out of context of your post, but it got me to thinking:
If this competition was a skirmish the Americans would have kicked Chinese posterior, but the world would still award the win to the Chinese for style points if nothing else.
We need to stop shivering in the face of Chinese aggression and consider why China isn’t already being militarily aggressive against us. China may be able to field a million troops in short order but our technology gives us the ability to kill a million of them just as fast.
China: 20 Gold medals
USA: 10
Sports in which the Chinese have won gold medals, along with number :
Diving — 4
Fencing — 1
Artistic Gymnastics — 3
Judo — 1
Shooting — 4
Swimming — 1
Weightlifting — 6
And here is the U.S. breakdown:
Road Cycling — 1
Fencing — 1
Shooting — 1
Swimming — 7
Walter:
They use these kids at that young age because it’s all about strngth-to-weight ratio. If an athlete is carring an extra 20 or 30lbs but is no stronger relative to their weight than the competetion, it’s obvious who will be able to jump higher and flip faster. If the ChiComs disregard the rules, they have a huge advantage. The Romanians and Russians did the same in the ’70s and ’80s.
The IOC is the same type of organization as the United Nations – filled to the top with dictator sympathizers and feckless diplomats…and as such is going to be consistently anti-American.
IOC had/has 200 billion $$$$ reasons to look the other way on China.
I also believe that the girls are younger than 16. It is fun to see a lot of the media make fun at this.
But I got to say that other than this age stuff, fake singers, fake fireworks and fakes ……, I am enjoying the Olympics as a whole.
GO USA!
These guys give communists a bad name.
It is not so much as the age thing that bothers me. It is that these girls seem faceless and nameless. I can see the schedule. “For the all-around China presents: 12 year old, 55 pound, orphaned neutered girl”
I think this will be remembered as the Faux-lympics: lip-synching kids, computer enhanced-fireworks, kiddie gymnasts, soon-to-be-discovered-I’m-sure doping, etc.. Fake, fake, fake, fake.
Goldwater:
Bingo. I imagine that the combat conduct of the ChiComs would rival that of the Russians, but in any event, make the Islamos seem like boy scouts.
China certainly seems to be a society that believes exclusively that “the ends justifies the means.”
At the risk of a threadjack – I’ve always wondered how China went from protecting our pilots after Doolittle’s Raid in 1942 to storming into N. Korea to attack our troops in 1950.
I get the feeling that a liberal, FDR State Department investment in Mao’s ‘Cultural Revolution’ played a major role in this.
I recognize that this is extreme stuff, but if I was Truman, I would have flattened every Chinese city when they poured over one million troops into N. Korea to try to annihilate US Forces.
That was an unacceptable action on China’s part, and it has been downhill ever since.
Reminds me of an episode of ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ in which Magda states “if the models get any younger, Pats, they’ll be chuckin’ fetuses down the catwalk”
I can honestly say I did know one. She was the niece of my friend. She was staying with his family because of trouble in her home. One summer weekend visit, I noticed she had two front teeth missing. I asked who hit her then both he and his wife had a mixture of giggles and shock and said to me that Stephanie still had her baby teeth! Steph continued to lose more during that summer. Fortunately she had a wicked sense of humor by demanding the money plus interest that was owed to her by the tooth fairy.
Ten years later with two kids of her own, we still talk about that toothless summer.
Michelle, check out smileycentral-dot-com for a crickets chirping smiley face.
The Chinese are cheating??? Are we suprized? NO! The Olympics without cheating just wouldn’t be the Olympics. So now in an effort to CONTROL everything the outside world sees in China, the chinese are exposing who they really are. One always has to be aware of the unintended consequences. These control freaks may not like what the world learns about them.
How does this help Michelle O’s kidz?
TOS,
Do you think that Deng Linlin looks like Sam Cassell with hair too?
Or is that a comparison reserved for female Filipina-Americans only?
The Chinese, caught cheating? surely you gest?
America should have boycotted these games.
Is it any wonder that the Chinese seem to only win in the subjective competitions?
Seems like the Chinese government and the Obama administration will get along well enough, though. After all they do share the same Marxist philosophies, and both are great at scrubbing digital information.
The Olympics? Is that what’s on TV these days? Oh, I thought it was just a political documentary on China with beautiful fauxtography. Oh well….
….IOC or UN, IOC or UN? Its really a toss up. Both orgs are do-nothings. Aren’t they really interchangeable?
Uh, do you know any Asians? Can we get over the “they all look alike” stereotype please? Their government sucks, but the Chinese people are amazing.
And RedDog #70, yes. Also in women’s gymnastics, as they develop hips and breasts, their center of gravity moves around.
Uh, they’re communist. Of course they’ll lie and cheat.
This is precisely why we should have boycotted this Olympics instead of giving them free propaganda broadcast by our media.
Cheated or not, we are being beat by babies. Who needs performance enhancers when you have toothless tweens.
It’s embarrassing watching much of NBC’s coverage of these Olympics, constantly spinning for the Chinese.
I have been flipping between NBC and CBC, and the Canadiens are much better. They have better analysts during the events, and their reporting is decidedly pro-Canada while being very congradulatory towards American (and other) medal winners.
What suprised me most was seeing some CBC reports very critical of China – one on the horrible air quality and another on the ticket scandal resulting in so many empty seats.
This is what I’m hearing: “Oh, but shouldn’t we be ‘diplomatic’ and ‘cautious’ in dealing with the Chinese? They do have lots of people and guns. We should tread lightly and speak softly when talking about the wonderful Chinese…” You cheat, you lose. What’s the issue? Nothing personal. Nothing political. So, someone tell me again why didn’t we completely boycott these games?
Just wait and see, someone will accuse Phelps of cheating here pretty soon. It wouldn’t be the first time an international sports organization acted in a shady manner (Graeme Obree anyone? Lance Armstrong?)
Just wait until the basketball, track & field, softball, beach volleyball and other finals. The U.S. will still come out on top.
On the one hand: Adults behaving like children (ie, the clinical shame/paranoia/persecution complex of the ChiCom government); and, on the other hand,
… children behaving like adults (ie, innocent underage female gymnasts abjectly subordinating — via coersion — their very identities in order to please their “superiors”).
This is all a perfect metaphor for the systemically vile International Olympic Committee, which got all its training from the congenitally spineless mirror-worshipping bureaucrats at the UN.
The Olympics are like politicians and the media, bereft of all credibility.
You actually think the IOC is going to do anything about it? Bwaaafaaawww!!
Have you listened to the NBC goons during the events? They are practically making it sound like the Chinese are the super race. I think they all want jobs there or something.
None to worry. I give China about 10 more years before it implodes on itself.
The 1972 US Basketball Team was/is right not to have accepted their silver medals. While I don’t think the 2008 US Women’s Gymnastics Team should give back their silver medals, but for whatever it’s worth, perhaps mentally they can take solace in knowing they really won the gold. The mistakes in the team competition are now moot for the individual all-around.
Then you have Cheng Fei, age 20 (confirmed age.) I recall the commentators saying that she wanted to retire, but her parents wouldn’t let her because she was too valuable as a gymnast for the country and to the family. Gotta love it.
Also, anyone else see the image on Google? If I do recall, the American “Redeem” team put China in a hurt-locker in the first round. A better picture would be an eagle picking up a small snake with its talons with a basketball in its beak.
AlohaGuy,
I agree with your statement. Its really offensive for people to describe asians as all looking the same. My family is made up of vietnamese, chinese, and korean. Each is unique in their own way. I am surprised that the person who originally posted that comment hasn’t been axed by the site. MM and crew can be a bit trigger happy.
Maybe they meant sound the same;) I read that some 90% of Chinese have 1 of 100 of the most common last names.
Here is some news on NBC’s coverage: