One other thing of which I am unsure--my best friend while growing up had been born in Saigon, came to the US in 1975. We were both born in the same year, but she always quoted her age as a year older. She explained to me that it was traditional, in Vietnam, to give your age as the year you are beginning to live, not the year you have just completed. For all I know this is common throughout Asia. Might be just another way to confuse an already confused young girl about her age.
I don't know about you, but I spend an awful lot of time with 3-4 year olds. They'll believe practically anything.
It doesn’t matter what they believe.
If they can be proven to be underage they need to be stripped of their medals. Period.
And if not, all people who have had their medals stripped for steroids need to get them back.
It has to be one or the other.