Simply amazing, and the power of the Internet. I did hear this story over the TV first but it’s amazing how it came about. Apparently, bloggers uncovered the truth even before most people knew about it. Take a look at this blog http://strydehax.blogspot.com/2008/08/hack-olympics.html
I guess this blogging person was not the first one to discover the discrepancies between Chinese Olympic gymnasts passports and other age revealing information found on the Internet. Specifically, I’m talking about the gymnast named “He Kexin” but I believe that possibly to others will eventually be seen to have the same age problem.
Chinese officials apparently do what they can to game the system, and this does not only include snatching young children from preschool to have shown ability in a particular sport to be developed into Olympic athletes. Falsifying documents apparently has been added to the arsenal of gaming the system.
Don’t think it was just some guy or girl from the United States who happens to be a blogger and also doing investigative research. You can also see that other Chinese bloggers were doing the same thing at least one week ago before all this blew up. Just because Chinese officials to things underhandedly often times, does not mean all the Chinese people are not honest. This definitely can be shown by bloggers like this one to have done their part to reveal the truth.
You will see that I have given you two links. The first link is a Babel translation because most of the people reading this blog will not be able to read Chinese.
The second link is the original URL written in Chinese.
Second link: http://www.wretch.cc/blog/billypan101/11740056
First of all, it’s amazing how well the translation can be read even if it’s not perfect. Therefore, it’s easy to see that documentation definitely shows at least this one gymnast as being too young to compete in the Olympics.
