12:14 am
Controlympics: Barely Not Legal
An American blogger-hacker who goes by the name Stryde has tracked down and posted Chinese government documents that allegedly show Chinese gymnastic superstar He Kexin, who won gold medals both as a member of the victorious Chinese team and as an individual on the uneven bars, is definitely 14 and not 16 as the Chinese team claims:
The report is serious enough that even NBC is reporting it. And even the IOC has concluded it has to investigate:
We have asked the gymnastics federation to look into it further with the national Chinese federation. If there is a question mark, and we have a concern - which we do - we ask the governing body of any sport to look into… as to why there is a discrepancy.
In other words, they’ve just asked the very people complicit in the cover-up to look into whether they were complicit in a cover-up. Now that’s the IOC I know and love!
If He is found to be underage (gymnasts now have to be 16 to compete), I presume she will lose her medal. But will the Chinese team lose as well? In both cases, Americans will become gold medalists. And it will have happened after Stryde outs them. That is going to drive the bambooroots absolutely up the wall. And it’s going to embarrass the ChiComs.
Stryde better make sure he’s got nuclear anti-viral/anti-spam/anti-worm/anti-denial-of-service protection. Because the wrath of the dragon is about to come roaring down on his head.
He probably has nothing to worry about, though. I’m guessing that none of that will happen. It will be far easier for the whole thing just to go away.
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