on Olympics Committee To Investigate Chinese Women's Gymnastics!!!!!!! at 16:41 08/22/2008

It's funny that so many of you seem to think that this is all about the US being sore losers. Is anyone pissed off because the Chinese men's team practically sweeped all the golds for men's gymnastics and the US placed 3rd? nope and why? because the Chinese men were clearly better and they left absolutely no reason to doubt their talent or right to be there. We are not the only country full of people who are upset & insulted by this blatant attempt to play the entire world for fools. Some people are being disgustingly racist, but overall people are just upset that China showed a complete lack of respect for the entity that is the Olympics, much less for the young women who worked so hard to get there & were competing legitimately.

on Olympics Committee To Investigate Chinese Women's Gymnastics!!!!!!! at 16:47 08/21/2008

To everyone who seems to be of the opinion that no matter their age they deserved to win . . . if you actually knew the tiniest little shred about the dynamics gymnastics you would recognize the indiscrepancy caused by that small of an age difference at that particular point in a girls life. The age rule is not there just for kicks, it's there because the younger girls have an obvious advantage physically that creates an unfair lack of balance between the effort required to do what they do as opposed to the older girls who have to deal with breasts and periods. The only way these girls would actually deserve the medals would be if they were actually competing against girls from all the other countries of the same age.

on Olympics Committee To Investigate Chinese Women's Gymnastics!!!!!!! at 15:20 08/21/2008

I want to point out that anyone who has actually been in the gymnastics world and has gone through all the work that it takes to get to where these gymnasts are would not argue that some of those Chinese girls performed amazing routines...but...it is unfair for them to allow the younger girls to compete for multiple reasons including the puberty issue which is huge in gymnastics & the fearlessness that comes with being younger and having less experienced with performing on the big stage. I guarantee there are plenty of 13-15 year olds here in the United States that have routines that would put them all to shame & I'm sure we'll see some of them in the Olympics in London. I have nothing against China or their gymnasts but in their attempt to dominate the Beijing Olympics they have violated the rules & it's sad that those young girls may have to go through the heartbreak of relinquishing their medals, but the girls that followed the rules have already had to suffer the heartbreak of being beaten by competitors who didn't even belong there in the first place.