Thursday, August 21, 2008

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?"

From:http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/20/1259253&from=rss
And:http://strydehax.blogspot.com/

Simply astounds me the length some people will go in order to prove their national superiority. It just reeks of the government censorship and coverups that China is so well known for. Please, keep your insecurities about your humiliations in the past to yourself. Stop misleading your citizens and resorting to petty tricks like this to gain any semblance of national pride that you already don't have.

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