Mr.Sam
20-08-2008, 03:32 PM
SkeptOlympics writes "A new chapter in the ongoing controversy (http://news.google.com/news?q=chinese+gymnasts+age+controversy) surrounding China's women's gymnastics team opened today, as search engine hacker stryde.hax found surviving copies of official registration documents (http://strydehax.blogspot.com/) issued by China's General Administration of Sport of China (http://www.sport.gov.cn/). 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 (http://cache.baidu.com/c?m=9f65cb4a8c8507ed4fece763105392230e54f7227e8a90 5368d4e41dce204c413037bfa673794e5392d8242140b20a17 a2a17d247c1e68e6dd999f4aaaf1cc693bcd7a742613913161 c468d8dc4755d650e44d98a40e91b8e74391b9d2a2dc5f58cc&p=882a97128c805ffc57ecd3214f&user=baidu) and here (http://cache.baidu.com/c?m=9d78d513d9d431dc4f9ce3690c66c0166d43f1682ba1d2 020ed68448e267504a4172a4fb792d4a4295876b6672b25419 afb52172404262eadb8e9f4aaaeecf6c388850652c01d21a4c 8458b2930064dc60c70fe9ad1be3a7b863d5ffc5d3a81e0d8b&p=8b2a941786cc43f113fecb3146&user=baidu), 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?" I imagine the answer is "Forever".
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