I've gotta chime in here...do you honestly think that if the chinese govt were condoning the use of underage gymnasts that they would allow the girls actual age to still be posted on the internet. I ahve to believe that they know better than that and are certainly more capable of deleting said information.
This one fact remains...the chinese govt is powerful enough that if they say she's 16, she's gonna be 16.
And honeslty, i hate to see controversy over such a thing. Even if they or she is under 16, she shold not be riciculed and condemned for it. Ultimately, she will be the one to pay the terrible sacrifice for doing what her country made her do. I doubt they would take care of her in the event it were proven she were underage. She would have no life left after that.
i say let it be.
And while i'm at it, i saw where Michael Phelps is going to net something like 100 million from endorsements. Well, there's this stupid blonde women who founded the childhood obesity foundation or somehting, and she was all over CNN harassing Phelps for endorsing Frosted Flakes. She says it's terrible for an Olympic Athelete who is a role model for young kids to be "telling" them to eat a non-nutritious cereal that's loaded with sugar. She's condemning him for it.
To her i'd like to politely say, "SHUT THE F@CK UP B!TCH!!!!!!"
The guy just won 8 gold medals and you're going to ridicule him! He's an American hero. He eats 12,000 calories a day, but he burn 13,000 from EXERCISE!!!! The child hood obeisty b!tch should be touting exercise to all the fat kids that sit around munching on frosted flakes while playing xbox.
I feel terrible for Phelps.
Sometimes i hate the whole freedom of speach thing