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Old 08-15-2008, 04:01 PM   #1
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We were all commenting last night that she looks like she is 11.
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Old 08-15-2008, 04:02 PM   #2
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highly doubtful. IOC has no interest in investigating this. The passports and papers were in order.
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Old 08-15-2008, 05:06 PM   #3
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highly doubtful. IOC has no interest in investigating this. The passports and papers were in order.
I think Mike's correct, nothing will come of this. How can the IOC go against docs issued by a member country? Hell, they let Brazilians play beach VB for Georgia and Americans are playing BBall for the Russians.

So, why is there an age limit? Are younger gymnasts really that much better than older ones? Why? Seems that youth could also have its dissadvantages.
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Old 08-15-2008, 07:03 PM   #4
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So, why is there an age limit? Are younger gymnasts really that much better than older ones? Why? Seems that youth could also have its dissadvantages.
I am guessing it is an issue of exploitation.
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Old 08-23-2008, 03:16 PM   #5
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Not so fast. Check out this article:

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700253158,00.html

Looks to me like the IOC is not really doing an "investigation". They are just hoping to sweep this under the rug as quickly as possible. Relying completely on the Chinese to simply provide more documentation. How difficult would that be?
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Not so fast. Check out this article:

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700253158,00.html

Looks to me like the IOC is not really doing an "investigation". They are just hoping to sweep this under the rug as quickly as possible. Relying completely on the Chinese to simply provide more documentation. How difficult would that be?
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Utahdan is very naive. put he puts on this bad-ass act, so it's actually kind of refreshing to see him be the naive idealist once in a while.
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Old 08-23-2008, 05:18 PM   #8
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Am I a bad person for feeling happy that the Chinese might lose their gold medals?
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Am I a bad person for feeling happy that the Chinese might lose their gold medals?
trust me, they are not going to lose their medals.
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Old 08-23-2008, 07:23 PM   #10
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trust me, they are not going to lose their medals.
Agreed. It's the host nation. And the Chinese are just spiteful enough that we could see the slaughter of thousands of Tibetans if the Chinese lost gold medals.
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