TWeeD ([info]densaer) wrote,
@ 2008-08-20 08:43:00
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Hacking the Chinese Gymnastics Team.
Some enterprising soul has gone through various caches of information to dig up officially expunged documents that show that the Chinese womens gymnastics team isn't actually made up of 16-year-olds.

Details here:

http://strydehax.blogspot.com/

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[info]kethryvis
2008-08-20 03:53 pm UTC (link)
Gymnastics this year got totally hosed. Between a Chinese team that has age doubts, and that new scoring system... it's not fun to watch anymore. When I watch one gymnast make an almost perfect vault, with one small hop on landing, and then watch another gymnast make a vault where she hits the vault totally wrong and then lands on her knees, the latter vaulter wins the bronze while the former wins nothing... something is very wrong.

Track and field is full of dopers, as is cycling apparently and weightlifting, gymnastics has fucked up scoring and the oversight committee is so scared of the host country they won't even investigate allegations of rulebreaking... how long will it be before we can't enjoy or trust *any* of the Olympic games?

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[info]xaemyl
2008-08-20 03:58 pm UTC (link)
I lost all respect for the Olympics when they let professional athletes compete.

NBA and NHL stars? Fuck the Olympics. Fuck it up its stupid, stupid ass.

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[info]banacheq
2008-08-20 05:25 pm UTC (link)
The whole reason they did that was because the players of communist countries were not considered "pro" since they were playing for the state, rather than "being paid". And that went for Soccer, too.

So basically, our college kids were getting their hats handed to them by pro-level players. Which is why the 1980 US victory over Russia was such a big deal.

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[info]mrz80
2008-08-21 02:17 am UTC (link)
(*Cue Billy Crystal as Miracle Max *)
Max: Sure gymnastics is the greatest thing, and those little Chinese girls are... uhm... yeah, they're 16. Sixteen it is... sure thing...
(*Enter Carol Kane, as Valerie, agitated*)
Valerie:LIAR! LIAR! LIIIIIIIAAAAAARRRRR!

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