Chinese Gymnastics

Ok, well it has really been bugging me. Chinese, lie, cover up, cheat? No, of course not.

Well the Olympics came to prove this all wrong. There is a great blogger on the Chinese Gymnast Coverup, Stryde Hax, has some great links and posts to prove the cover up.

Now, lets just start Olympics. The talented little girl, Yang Peiyi, whose voice filled he birds nest was not actually the girl signing.

A blurb from the LA Times.

Peiyi had the voice and was supposed to perform, but was yanked at the last minute because her looks were deemed not suitable by a senior Communist Party official, Chen said.

"It was for the national interest," Chen told Beijing Radio. "The child on camera should be flawless in image, internal feelings and expression."

So Yang Peiyi is not pretty enough. Maybe with her beautiful little voice, she will be sent to work in all those Chinese factories. Would China have came out and told everyone if this didn't get leaked. Hell No!

How about the faked Olympic Firework Intro....

Nor was all quite what it seemed with the dazzling fireworks sequence watched by a billion or more television viewers. Worried about the difficulty of cameras capturing 29 sequential explosions from Tiananmen Square to the Olympic Village, the Chinese visual effects team re-created all but one of the big bangs in an animation studio, and inserted the 55-second clip into the live TV coverage.

Think they would have actually came out and said it was faked. Nope, not that either.

Lets search "China and Censor" on Google. 1.61 million results? Why must they censor their search results. Government control.

So, He Kexin, she doesn't look 16. Forensic experts have even stated her facial appearance does is not similar to someone 16 years of age.

But why lie about their ages. if they are 14 now, they will be 18 for the next Olympics and be past their prime.

As stated by Cui Dalin, the vice minister of the General Administration of Sport of China:

“During the registration, there were some discrepancies in the age of the athlete, therefore that mistake has led to a series of misunderstandings afterward,” Cui said during a closing news conference for the Chinese sports delegation here. “I can say for sure the age of the Chinese gymnasts comply with the rules.”

China, lie, cover up, cheat? Sure seems like it. I guess this all must be "administrative error".

Those poor talented gymnasts now look bad. I bet there would be protection in the states for He Kexin's parents to tell her age, but who knows, maybe they have a memory error and forgot the birthday. They could probably make a pretty good killing on cracking the Chinese Olympic Scandal and selling their book about how the goverment took their child away to become a gymnast.