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September 15th, 2010 admin No comments

Prov China
Did you know that the IOC conducted an investigation into the underage girls on China's gymnastic team?

Yesterday they opened and closed an investigation into the matter. It was over so fast you would miss it if you slept. They falsely declared that the girls are all eligible. Case closed. The matter has been swept under the rug. As Yahoo's Dan Wetzel so sharply observed, perhaps they should at least pretend to care. Their only objective was to clear the Chinese so that the games can move to a happy conclusion. What a black eye for the Olympics. I don't need an investigation to know that the girls are underage. All I have to use is common sense and my eyes. He Kexin is obviously not even 15.

Dan's column: http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/gymnastics/news?slug=dw-iocprobe082208&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
It looks like wolfs_bone is right, Dan Wetzel's column is not there anymore. I thought my link was bad, but I searched Dan's archives and it's not listed. Did Yahoo censor Dan Wetzel and pull down his column that was embarrassing Communist China? Someone please explain.

I like what he said at the end;

This investigation isn’t fair to the sport of gymnastics, which will forever look suspiciously on the competition here. It isn’t fair to the United States, Romania and Russia, who all deserve to move up one spot on the medal stand if China used ineligible athletes.

And it isn’t fair to China, He and her teammates, who if innocent don’t deserve this to hang over their heads forever.

The IOC and FIG have never been about fair, though. They’ve been about kowtowing to the powerful and cashing the checks. They have so lost their way, have become so insulated by the power, they can’t even fathom no one is accepting a kangaroo court investigation