Comments on: Olympic Gymnasticsgate Update: More Evidence That Gymnast Is Underage http://glosslip.com/2008/08/21/olympic-gymnasticsgate-update-more-evidence-that-gymnast-is-underage/ Celebrity gossip from our lips to yours Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:16:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: k http://glosslip.com/2008/08/21/olympic-gymnasticsgate-update-more-evidence-that-gymnast-is-underage/comment-page-1/#comment-56092 k Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:52:26 +0000 http://glosslip.com/?p=4712#comment-56092 Nice. You did your job. However, we in the USA are allowed to think for ourselves and form our own conclusions and question things that seem out of order to us. And no...I do not think all the girls on the Chinese gymnastics team look under sixteen, just a few. If you know the characteristics to look for then it isn't too hard. I do give you an A for effort, though. :) Nice. You did your job. However, we in the USA are allowed to think for ourselves and form our own conclusions and question things that seem out of order to us. And no…I do not think all the girls on the Chinese gymnastics team look under sixteen, just a few. If you know the characteristics to look for then it isn’t too hard.

I do give you an A for effort, though. :)

]]> By: Tony Su http://glosslip.com/2008/08/21/olympic-gymnasticsgate-update-more-evidence-that-gymnast-is-underage/comment-page-1/#comment-56085 Tony Su Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:33:56 +0000 http://glosslip.com/?p=4712#comment-56085 This age controversy was only stirred up by some US media because of jealousy and ignorance. Now even HACKER got involved in this campaign. How desperate! Since when hacker discovery of some faulty government web pages can be treated as solid "evidence"? How painful is losing the gold medal race! It's so convenient to denounce Chinese government media at one time, then treated it as the most authoritative at another (100% correctness?!). Those posted age information was just the mistakes made by some lazy or careless Chinese reporters or web page creators. How about those Chinese web sites reported correct age information? They were conveniently ignored by the US media. Here we observe vividly the double standards US media has over China. When an American is accused of doing some doping thing, etc, they ask for being considered as innocent unless proved otherwise. Now, they just stir up this media hysteria and presumed Chinese guilty unless proved otherwise. An old video circulated on Chinese web sites clearly showed that those girls were recruited when China was awarded Olympics and it mentioned they would be 16 years old in 2008. BTW, many Chinese girls do look very young comparing to Westerners, and some even appear younger than most other Chinese girls. If you don't know that, you have not seen enough. To most Americans, all Chinese Gymnasts in the team look like under 16 years old, not just those three being suspected (Japanese female Gymnasts look very under-aged too). There are Chinese girls in their 20s look like 14-year-old to even Chinese. This age controversy was only stirred up by some US media because of jealousy and ignorance. Now even HACKER got involved in this campaign. How desperate! Since when hacker discovery of some faulty government web pages can be treated as solid “evidence”? How painful is losing the gold medal race!

It’s so convenient to denounce Chinese government media at one time, then treated it as the most authoritative at another (100% correctness?!). Those posted age information was just the mistakes made by some lazy or careless Chinese reporters or web page creators. How about those Chinese web sites reported correct age information? They were conveniently ignored by the US media.

Here we observe vividly the double standards US media has over China. When an American is accused of doing some doping thing, etc, they ask for being considered as innocent unless proved otherwise. Now, they just stir up this media hysteria and presumed Chinese guilty unless proved otherwise.

An old video circulated on Chinese web sites clearly showed that those girls were recruited when China was awarded Olympics and it mentioned they would be 16 years old in 2008.

BTW, many Chinese girls do look very young comparing to Westerners, and some even appear younger than most other Chinese girls. If you don’t know that, you have not seen enough. To most Americans, all Chinese Gymnasts in the team look like under 16 years old, not just those three being suspected (Japanese female Gymnasts look very under-aged too). There are Chinese girls in their 20s look like 14-year-old to even Chinese.

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