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China gymnast guilty of age fraud, medals could be lost(from 2000 Sydney Olympics)
Reuters ^ | 02/27/10

Posted on 02/26/2010 8:15:16 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster

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To: Polybius

It just got too grotesque, too many half-starved twelve and thirteen year-olds being brutally overworked and living an abnormal existence. Way too many tragedies, eating disorders and coach-boffing scandals. That’s why the IOC put their foot down and established the 16 minimum age rule.


21 posted on 02/26/2010 9:51:00 PM PST by sinanju
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To: I still care

“she basically said she saw her parents once a year from the time she was three if that.”

Remember, these are GIRLS. In China, that doesn’t mean much. The orphanages are full of them


22 posted on 02/27/2010 4:09:30 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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23 posted on 02/27/2010 6:03:12 PM PST by WaterBoard
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