Miffed about Massive Mandarin Medalage? Good news!

For those of you oblivious to the accusations that the Chinese female gymnasts are underage (like me), this might come as some delightful news.

It seems as though some US computer nerd used the cache feature of Baidu (a popular Chinese search engine. Think Chinese Google) to look at some spreadsheets that were taken off of the Chinese government’s website that state that He Kexin, China’s Golden Girl, is only 14, two years younger than the age requisite set by the International Gymnast’s Association.

Faced with this evidence, as opposed to just the accusations that the IOC just ignored due to their wanting to not piss off China, the IOC is now forced to set up an investigation. Expect some golds to switch from China to America and the UK.

Damn dirty commies.

Here’re some news articles on the subject:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/article4583174.ece?token=null&offset=0&page=1

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/IOC-orders-investigation-into-He-Kexin-s-age?urn=oly,102564

~ by oncoathangers on August 21, 2008.