Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud 1275
SkeptOlympics writes "A new chapter in the ongoing controversy surrounding China's women's gymnastics team opened today, as search engine hacker stryde.hax found surviving copies of official registration documents issued by China's General Administration of Sport of China. The incriminating documents, expunged by censors from the official site and from Google's document cache, still appear in the document translation cache of Chinese search giant Baidu, here (1) and here (2), showing the age of one of China's gold medal winning gymnasts to be 14 instead of 16, the minimum age for competition presented on her government-issued passport. Now that official government documentation is available, how long will the IOC be able to keep a lid on this scandal?" I imagine the answer is "Forever."
Re-education (Score:5, Funny)
Crap (Score:5, Funny)
Sigh. I blame the Chinese government for this.
Chinese years vs US years. (Score:5, Funny)
She's 16 in Chinese years, which is 14 is US years.
A solution (Score:1, Funny)
I say carbon date 'em!
Re:Minimum Age (Score:5, Funny)
I wouldn't say stuff like that in public, dude.
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I imagine so as well (Score:5, Funny)
"People, people, please! You're forgetting what the Olympics are all about:
giving out medals of
beautiful gold,
so-so silver and s
hameful bronze. "
Simpsons
Re:A solution (Score:5, Funny)
I say carbon date 'em!
Hand in your geek creds please. Carbon dating only works on dead things, and will only give you the time that has passed since the thing in question died.
Unless you're suggesting that some of the athletes were, in fact, undead.
Nobody is born on the 1st of January (Score:4, Funny)
Seriously!
If anyone puts the 1st of January as their birth date, it is only because that is the most convenient fake birth date to enter on an HTML form.
01/01/ and then whatever year you need to be to apply for whatever it is you are applying for.
Re:A solution (Score:2, Funny)
Re:A solution (Score:5, Funny)
In that case, would cutting their head off and counting the rings work? ;)
I don't know about all that (Score:4, Funny)
What I do know, however, is that there needs to be more coverage of women's beach volleyball signals.
Age Of Consent (Score:3, Funny)
Age of consent in China is 14 for boys, 14 for girls, and 20 for gymnasts.
Re:Re-education (Score:5, Funny)
no,no,no waterboarding was a terrible war crime committed by the Japanese.
The bush administration just uses advanced water based interrogation techniques
Re:Re-education (Score:2, Funny)
Well doh! Because obviously Bush is the root of all Evil and Obama is our saviour. Bush is the problem and Obama is the answer to...everything.
Get a papercut? Bush's fault and Obama would have either prevented or fixed it.
Stub your toe? Bush's fault and Obama would have either prevented or fixed it.
Slip and fall in the shower? I think everyone gets the point...
Re:Re-education (Score:5, Funny)
Do you do crafts? Because that's one hell of a strawman you just put together for us.
Re:A solution (Score:2, Funny)
Re:A solution (Score:5, Funny)
No, but you would get a cease and desist from the IOC if there were 5 rings.
Re:Re-education (Score:4, Funny)
"Both are for BIG Government. (D) wants to "do it for the children", while the (R) are to protect us from evil doers."
That explains bipartisan support for "protecting the children from evildoers".
Re:A solution (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Cultural Differences (Score:2, Funny)
The US for instance is currently ruled by representatives of Big Oil and private military corporations that are sucking trillions out of the hands of the US taxpayers. With that kind of money available its no wonder there is corruption abounding. When the Iraq war winds up, you can expect another one to follow because the companies making all that money at the moment will not be likely to stand for a peace. Its too good a racket
Let me explain to you how this works. You see, the corporations finance Team America. And then Team America goes out and the corporations sit there in their, ih in their corporation buildings and, and and see that's, they're all corporationy, and they make money. Mhm.
Re:Nothing will happen (Score:5, Funny)
I was thinking about court.... basically I was wondering who's going to wheel out the "But officer, the Chinese government said she was 16" defense first :P.
Re:Re-education (Score:5, Funny)
But, IANC, I only know conversational Japanese and know a little (very little) about Chinese culture.
i think i would know enough about chinese culture and language (none) to know that 14 < 16.
Re:Minimum Age (Score:3, Funny)
"Now, as we have reminded viewers several times already, you'll want to ignore what's actually going on on the beam itself and pay attention to the ultrasound video being broadcast on the stadium monitors, brought to you by our friends at GE. The mother is along for the ride, but she's definitely not the Olympic competitor here.
"Just look at the way Baby Xu is able to maintain its form within the amniotic sac. It really is amazing, having to contend with competing in a bubble of viscous fluid, on top of the other disadvantages of being a fetus, that it can perform at this level! Many people have wondered how, before the gender of this competitor is clear, it can be assigned to an apparatus properly, but I remind everyone that prior to birth, the apparatus eligibility is assigned based on the mother. Now watch this! Here we go...gotta stick that landing—oh! That's unfortunate."