We love our readers that deny the evidence.

How typical of the Chinese government to lie and cheat. Or didn’t you notice that the Chinese did this before and snuck in an underage girl who later admitted on Chinese state television she was only 14. Her reward by the Chinese? We don’t know overall, but we suggest it was punishment for her family and her. She never saw the Olympics again.

The Chinese people are great and suffer at the hands of an abusive totalitarian government that would even cheat in the Olympics they sponsor by abusing young girls, and you accuse us of being poor sports? Please. You have to have a better argument than that.

So what do you derive from the Chinese government’s actions? That Deng Linlin is a 26 year old PHD in Gymnastics?

Try reading our other articles before getting all huffy. Then you may see how badly the Chinese government abuses these girls.

China has great athletes and a huge country, but they resort to cheating in a way that is so obvious to everyone in the world. They are indeed a disgrace both to the Olympics and their people.

Personally, I think the age limit should be lowered or either nonexistent. As many have stated, this gives China an unfair disadvantage not only in this Olympics, but in the next one. What makes me mad is that probably nothing will be done about all of this. What ever happened to the integrity of these games? When did breaking the rules become OK?

It isn’t that the Chinese team do not look 16. It is that most of them are not 16, period. Sports Illustrated and the New York Times already exposed that information, even finding evidence in China’s own records exposed the truth. As they appeared, the Chinese scrambled to cover it up and just said there were errors. Right, errors on only the girls underage in the Olympics, not the hundreds of millions of other women in China.

You say it is documented, but the only evidence of age are government passports with wet ink showing every underage girl to be, you guessed it, exactly 16. What an incredible coincidence.

As far as writing about the American team, please read our About Page. We do not have the staff to cover the entire Olympics, but if you would like to take over as a writer reporting on the Chinese team, we would be glad to consider your submissions for publication.

Your post appears to indicate you did not read the article at all or skimmed it. The issue is not experience in this instance, because certainly, if it were, the Chinese would have brought a team of legitimate age to the Olympics. It has much more to do with broadening the field and acquiring experience for younger athletes for future gold.

As Coach Karolyi said, “The only way to stop this is to take off the age limit. Take it away. We would have some amazing young athletes on our team, too, but they missed it by a few months.” And the US Athletes on the team that abide by the rules and happened to be 15 years and 10 months won’t be able to compete at all until they are nearly 20. You think that fair? And as far as your “experience” argument goes, they will have much less experience than their Chinese competition who will have already performed in the Olympics when they were significantly under age. Certainly, you can understand that as well.

We will be publishing a new article shortly that shows how it was advantageous for the Chinese to cheat. We do not blame the girls, but it is unfair to legitimate teams throughout the world.

More importantly is the spin coverage that’s been put on this. I realized about half-way down the article that it’s all about how great the US did and not about anyone else. The Olympics is in essence about global unity (whether or not it’s actually displayed is up to debate) and talking about only how great the US is not promoting that concept. Think about that.

Then there’s the fact that people are angry because these girls are under the age of 16. First off, the documents show that they’re 16, and even though the PRC printed that document it would behoove all of you to accept that they are 16. For the rest of you who still won’t believe it here’s something for you to consider:

Lets say these girls are 13. The oldest competitor on the USA team is 18. This girl has had 5 more years of training, 5 more years of experience, 5 more years of wisdom, knowledge, and learning. So how is it unfair that the 13 year old won? The saying goes “taking candy from a baby”, not “taking candy from someone older than you, with probably more experience”.

The bashers and flamers of this world needs to learn that the US needs to win with a smile and lose with a smile. So we lost ONE medal. The Chinese can’t even RUN track and field. We can sweep the field with that section; there are over 15 golds to get in track and field. Why cry over spilled milk? This is a once every four years experience and all you can think about is that ONE silly medal? And it’s not about the idea, not the principle. It’s that you, the basher or flamer, hate losing. Well, losing is a part of life. Learn to deal with it.

No big suprise really.