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skeezer on 14 August 2008
Sqrl said:
skeezer said:

Cheng Fei - The best one in China's team - 20 years old.

 

Also Age.... gets you experiance so you dont go and fuck it up like Alicia Sacramone.

 

I didn't ask you to name someone who is 20 and in gymnastics, I asked if there was anyone who was more limber at 19 than 12. 

As for experience, I thought it was common knowledge they were "selected" at a young age by the government and put into training programs.  I'm pretty sure any experience factors are more than made up for. 

None of this really matters though. As I said, what is the point of having rules if they aren't enforced? First they have to prove it though, and that isn't likely to happen now.

Well just because you are more "limber" doesn't mean you are better, as for how old they really are...I don't know, but they should judge them just because they think they look "young"

 



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MrBubbles on 14 August 2008
skeezer said:

Well just because you are more "limber" doesn't mean you are better, as for how old they really are...I don't know, but they should judge them just because they think the look "young"

 

 

except one of their athletes has already been proven to be younger than the stated age.



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skeezer on 14 August 2008
MrBubbles said:
skeezer said:
 

Well just because you are more "limber" doesn't mean you are better, as for how old they really are...I don't know, but they should judge them just because they think the look "young"

 

 

except one of their athletes has already been proven to be younger than the stated age.

 

 One of them is 15, she[according to her passport] turns 16 this month, which make it legal.



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Sqrl on 14 August 2008
skeezer said:
Sqrl said:
skeezer said:

Cheng Fei - The best one in China's team - 20 years old.

 

Also Age.... gets you experiance so you dont go and fuck it up like Alicia Sacramone.

 

I didn't ask you to name someone who is 20 and in gymnastics, I asked if there was anyone who was more limber at 19 than 12. 

As for experience, I thought it was common knowledge they were "selected" at a young age by the government and put into training programs.  I'm pretty sure any experience factors are more than made up for. 

None of this really matters though. As I said, what is the point of having rules if they aren't enforced? First they have to prove it though, and that isn't likely to happen now.

Well just because you are more "limber" doesn't mean you are better, as for how old they really are...I don't know, but they should judge them just because they think the look "young"

 

And having more experience doesn't mean you're better either.

But again the bottom line is that a rule is a rule.  If they drug test Michael Felps tomorrow and they find traces of pot in his system nobody questions that his medals will get taken away (ala the Canadian Snowboarder back in Salt Lake City iirc). .

 
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pbroy on 14 August 2008
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I'm just afraid of looking like a pedophile.

 

It's better than feeling gay watching the young boys doing synchronized diving, who look like they have a secret love affair.

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Sqrl on 14 August 2008
pbroy said:
MontanaHatchet said:
I'm just afraid of looking like a pedophile.

 

It's better than feeling gay watching the young boys doing synchronized diving, who look like they have a secret love affair.

Did you seriously just imply that being a pedophile is better than being gay?

 
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pbroy on 14 August 2008
Sqrl said:
pbroy said:
MontanaHatchet said:
I'm just afraid of looking like a pedophile.

 

It's better than feeling gay watching the young boys doing synchronized diving, who look like they have a secret love affair.

Did you seriously just imply that being a pedophile is better than being gay?

 

 

Not really. I meant I'de rather watch young girls do gymastics than young guys do things together. BAHHHH it sounds sick no matter how you say it.  o_O

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cwbys21 on 14 August 2008

I have maybe seen 10 Chinese people in real life so my experience around them is pretty much zero, but there was an American girl who was 16 that was very mature looking, and those Chinese girls who are "also 16" were much shorter, and had no curves to them. It just doesn't make sense. So all the gymnastics they do make them look younger and Chinese people naturally look younger so they look 12 compared to the American girl who has done gymnastics for a very long as well and she definitely looks 16, again, it makes no sense.



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ssj12 on 14 August 2008

question for you guys, did that one girl from Discovery Atlas - China Revealed perform at the Olympics?



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Random Person B on 14 August 2008

so far everything checks out. all the girls are legal age.

asians in general look a lot younger than they are if you are using western physical cues of age. gymnasts also look very young for their age, as the best body type is small, thin, slender. Put that together with an already young age of 16, of course people are going to be thinking the girls are younger than they are. They're just so used to seeing certain physical cues from 16 years olds from america.

Plus, them winning is probably causing a big fuss. If China placed 3rd or something and U.S placed first, I'm willing to bet no one here would be giving a shit at this point.