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Gym officials: China's 2008 gold medalists of age

move on... | 8:31 a.m. Oct. 1, 2008

and leave this story in the dust. "We still have questions about Sydney" blah blah blah...instead of looking back, why not look forward to 2012 and research who will be in those Olympics, to make sure they are of age. Then we won't have this problem.

What? | 8:55 a.m. Oct. 1, 2008

I really believe everything China says.

byron | 10:53 a.m. Oct. 1, 2008

Sports are important here in the US but I'm glad that they are not so important that our government is willing to falsify children's passports make them lie about their ages and take them away from their families as early as 8 years old. Did you hear the interview with Yilin after she won all around bronze? She said that she hadn't seen her parents in years, hadn't talked to them for a year, didn't know if they came to watch her, or even if they watched her on TV, then she said how proud she was to bring honor to her country. Personally I'm more concerned about how these girls are brought up then if they are of age. They look like a bunch of sad little robots.

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NOT | 1:49 p.m. Oct. 1, 2008

These chinese girls were not 16. They didn't look old enough to have hit puberty yet. Gross. Really gross.

China lies. What is new?

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