[robertvance]

Looks like China is at it again...more deception...should we be suprised? Not really...

[max americana]

>Quite simply, cheating is a part of the culture here and this fact has been confirmed by many of my Chinese students and friends...<

Pfft! Child’s play. Democrats wrote the book on cheating. Try using dead people’s names to get more votes.

[EagleUSA]

Not only because they are communists, totally devoid of ethics, morals, honor and self-respect, but it is really part of the culture of Asia. Cheating, lying, and corruption are built in.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

When 13 year old Chinese girls beat 18 year old American women, I am not worried about cheating Chinese. I am really worried that young American women could not out perform girls. Doesn’t experience and a more mature body give the woman an advantage. It would seem so in just about every other sport. I personally think some of the sour grape complaints I've heard reflect on a lack of strategy making on the American coaches. They had four years to see this coming.

[Will88]

Another thing is that younger kids are more flexible, and smaller with a lower center of gravity, advantages when doing somersaults on the balance beam and tumbling on floor exercises and some other moves.

And experience is probably not that much of a factor for kids who started training around four or five. If they’re 12,14, 16 or 18, they’ve still had eight or more years of training and several years experience in competition, plenty of time for the talented ones to learn some competitive routines.

[AnalogReigns]

I know a seminary professor who a couple times a year flies to Ukraine to teach seminary classes to pastors there.

He has to be very careful during exams, as the students routinely and openly compare each others’ answers, openly discussing things during the tests....unless he lays down the law, and keeps them separated.

They explain that “We from socialist country and we cooperate for to give answers!” The whole concept of cheating as bad is almost entirely absent—and this is among PASTORS!

[Irishguy]

well look at the chinese swimmer Liu Zige who beat the aussie Jessicah Schipper yesterday...

1 year ago the chinese winner was 22nd in the world..yesterday wins and cuts nearly 4 seconds off the world record...and she cut nearly 12 seconds off her own personal best...IN A YEAR

uh huh...

short of having an outboard motor (which from memory is illegal), this is just simply not physically possible...unless of course you have some assistance.

what was amazing and shows the good grace was the aussie girl went up and shook her hand...i guess she has honour and code...

[Wil H]

Stop your griping the girl is 16, here’s the proof.

It’s indisputable..

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/6135/bobirthcertificate20chiyd2.jpg

[harrym]

Don’t know if anyone checked up on this, but in China, one is considered already one year old on the day of birth. Are they counting ages based on that paradigm or on the western one?

[Allegra]

In 2001, I was sent to China on business. Before leaving, I sat through a one hour Chinese cultural class my company provided to prevent us from unwittingly pulling a social faux pas while there.

The Chinese man who gave the class told us point blank that deception is part of the culture and that the Chinese thought Americans were strange because we were so forthright and open.

[freeangel]

The only honor china has is the tradition of honoring itself. They cheat, lie and try to be the conquistidors of the time. They take, but how much have you heard of any charitable leanings toward any peoples that need aid. They supress their peoples rights and let them starve to build up the military. Frankly, they need to sink into the china sea.