time.com - 8/13/2008
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They twirled and tumbled and soared, their lean, lithe bodies slicing the air like tiny blades. In the end, China's women's gymnastics team prevailed in the team final, capturing the gold, with the Americans taking silver and the Romanians rounding it out with a bronze. But even as the Chinese team's doll-like faces broke out into giant smiles, a question mark hung over the mats at the ...
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I’m a dirty no-good flip-flopper.
Rachel Lucas —
... to cut out a lot of the bullshit, and they just go bam-bam-bam from one event to the other. Even the commercial breaks seem shorter and less painful.
Last night we watched a group of 7-year-old Chinese girls beat the crap out of the American gymnasts. And please. Don’t try to tell me those Chinese chicks are 16 and older. Bela Karolyi is not crazy - actually I think he might be for other reasons - but he’s right about this. Even the New York Times and Time magazine and Sports Illustrated are getting on it, and there’s pretty ...
Children Stealing Gold in Beijing
Pajamas Media —
... . Ms. Deng is not the only Chinese gymnast with multiple birthdates. In fact, the spotlight this year has fallen on three of her teammates: Jiang Yuyuan, Yang Yilin, and the especially infamous He Kexin. China’s official Xinhua News Agency listed Ms. He’s age as 13 on its website just nine months before the Olympics began. China Daily , the country’s official English-language paper, ...
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