Wow, China sort of... whooped us in the Gold department....

I think they go by total medal count (otherwise silver and bronze would be pointless to award out if they didn't count) and american had 110 medals total, china with 100.

China might have a few medals taken away from them for cheating though.

Originally posted by Davideo7

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I think they go by total medal count (otherwise silver and bronze would be pointless to award out if they didn't count) and american had 110 medals total, china with 100.

China might have a few medals taken away from them for cheating though.

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The underage thing? Um... That's actually EMBARRASSING. "No fair! We got beat by a 9 year-old!" see the embarrassing part?

iBOCK, you obviously know nothing about the Olympics or Gymnastics, which is of course fine.

Here's 3 reasons why it's wrong:
1. Being underage is an advantage not only physically but mentally. The children who are underage do not understand how big of a deal being in the olympics is so therefore there's less pressure which results into them making less mistakes.
2. It's for the safety of the kids. China is known to force their kids into gymnastics and make them train for a living, 8 hours a day (and no school). It's almost like child labor.
3. Rules are rules and it doesn't matter what the rules are, they are to be obeyed. They were aware of the rules and they were definitely aware that they were breaking the rules when they had to lie about the age of those children. Once you allow someone to cheat, everyone is going to try and find ways to cheat because once you let that door open a little, than it's going to continue to open until it's opened all the way.

Those are 3 very good reasons and the President of the IOC is also against this cheating.

Well here's my question: would you trust a birth certificate or passport to give someone's correct age?

Originally posted by ziggy

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Well here's my question: would you trust a birth certificate or passport to give someone's correct age?

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Well all I know is that those girls were registered at much younger ages in previous compeitions, than all of a sudden the magically appeared to be 16 years old when the olympics came up. One of the girls is said to be as young as 12 years old, which is what she was registered at less than a year ago at a different competition.

Like I said, the birth certificates said they were too young, the passports didn't

So what is your point ziggy?

Originally posted by Davideo7

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iBOCK, you obviously know nothing about the Olympics or Gymnastics, which is of course fine.

Here's 3 reasons why it's wrong:
1. Being underage is an advantage not only physically but mentally. The children who are underage do not understand how big of a deal being in the olympics is so therefore there's less pressure which results into them making less mistakes.
2. It's for the safety of the kids. China is known to force their kids into gymnastics and make them train for a living, 8 hours a day (and no school). It's almost like child labor.
3. Rules are rules and it doesn't matter what the rules are, they are to be obeyed. They were aware of the rules and they were definitely aware that they were breaking the rules when they had to lie about the age of those children. Once you allow someone to cheat, everyone is going to try and find ways to cheat because once you let that door open a little, than it's going to continue to open until it's opened all the way.

Those are 3 very good reasons and the President of the IOC is also against this cheating.

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I was referencing a comedian, but OK... Get technical...

I know it's illegal, and yes, it's wrong. It's stupid that they let these kids get in without any fuss.

Wow I didn't even get to watch any of it Internet is addicting

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I hope the London Olympics doesn't suck

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