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