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Post by ken on Aug 21, 2008 19:08:48 GMT -5
The International Olympic Committee has ordered an investigation into the age of Chinese gymnast He Kexin, The Times of London reports. Faced with almost insurmountable evidence which suggests that He is two years younger than the birth date listed on her Chinese passport, the IOC has launched an inquiry that could result in the stripping of He's gold medals. This news comes on the heels of another Times report that details the findings of a New York computer security expert who found official Chinese documents that list He's age as 14 years and 220 days. Mike Walker used a Chinese search engine's cache feature to find He's actual date of birth on spreadsheets from a Chinese government website. The spreadsheets were taken down off the site recently and He's name had been removed. sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/IOC-orders-investigation-into-He-Kexin-s-age?urn=oly,102564
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Post by Chilehead on Aug 21, 2008 19:18:10 GMT -5
I'm surprised that she is 14. She looks about 10 or 11, tops.
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Post by ken on Aug 21, 2008 19:40:23 GMT -5
I agree. They will cover it up some how..
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Post by Chilehead on Aug 22, 2008 11:08:12 GMT -5
Costas talked about this quite a bit last night. There was some evidence but you're absolutely right, with the Chinese government behind this anything can be covered up. They also stated that another Chinese Olympic gymnast from the 2000 games I think, went public and stated that she was 14 when she competed. In a country where honor supposedly means so much, I don't see much honor in cheating. What hypocrites!
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Post by Chilehead on Aug 22, 2008 11:20:09 GMT -5
A U.S. blogger known as Stryde Hax wrote Thursday that he had uncovered Chinese state documents that proved He is 14 and not 16, which is the minimun age requirement to compete in the Olympics. The blogger found the documents on the Internet using the cache feature of two Internet search engines. The cache tool allows users to go back and view Web sites that are no longer available for viewing.
The blogger said he found documents that the Chinese government has since taken offline. Although they had been partially removed from Google's cache, the blogger said he then found them on the Chinese search engine, Baidu.www.abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=5632928&page=1
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