The Chinese child tactics were no match for the US team of Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson who took home gold and silver medals in the womens gymnastics all around competition last night, but that still doesn’t justify their alleged use of under 16 gymnasts to help them win the team gold!
As reported yesterday, The Chinese media is frantically trying to cover up all of the proof online by changing articles, removing them from websites, and pretending it never happened. But the Huffington Post has published a collection of documents, both original and doctored that expose the truth to the age of at least one gymnast. Coincidentally, the athlete in question was only issued her passport just 6 months ago in February.
Olympic officials are practically ignoring the issue at the moment, but there is a letter floating around that you e-mail to the Federation of International Gymnastics and let them know that they must look into the issue. The address is info@fig-gymnastics.org and if you want a simple letter to copy and paste, someone has been nice enough to leave one here for us
Dear Sirs/Madams:
Please investigate underage female gymnasts at the
2008 Beijing Olympics. We understand that passports
were used to verify ages for this competition and that
yours and related applicable organizations are content
to hide behind a passport age verification excuse in
the face of obviously contradictory evidence, without
even so much as an investigation.We, as an international community, expect you to
investigate this issue.Athletes from the country in question are on
record as having admitted that in past Olympics they
themselves were underage at the time of their
competition in direct violation of the rules.There is an established history of a country breaking
age qualification rules in the past, documented by
their athletes own admission.
There is print evidence from numerous sources, within
this countries own media and athletic department
documents, showing a discrepancy in ages of athletes.As an international community and in the true spirit
of the Olympic games, we expect this to be taken
seriously and investigated immediately. Any failure to
do so will be seen as a complete lack of credibility
and enforcement by your organization. Your lack of
action will also cause irreparable damage to the
hearts and minds of developing athletes across the
globe when they realize that you will not investigate
a serious claim to maintain the openness and fairness
of global athletic competition.
The only other thing you can do is boycott Chinese food until the matter is solved.
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