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Just finished watching the women’s gymnastics final out of the corner of my eye while working in my hotel room. I know nothing about the sport, or the event, and I have only a cursory knowledge of the controversy over whether or not the Chinese... ...full story at Shanghai Scrap

from Shanghai Scrap on Wed, Aug 13 2008

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17 Aug 08		The gymnast controversy - China’s censors at work » Peking Duck Raj The following article from the Globe and Mail gives an interesting point-of-view on the controversy over the age of some of China’s gold-medal winning women’s gymnastics team. What is really creepy about what’s emerged from the...
18 Aug 08		(Letter) Chinese gymnasts age controversy » Blogging For China Last night after the women’s gymnastics team final, NBC announcer Bella Caroli commented that the Chinese team cheated with underage athletes, and their passports were doctored by the Chinese government. After some digging, it seems the age...
26 Mar 07		Locker Room Logic in Shanghai » China Snippets I get the key and wander into the locker room It’s quiet in the fitness centre, not more then 5 people (men and women). Having finished I return to take a shower. While changing clothes, a man enters. His locker is next to mine. Another person...
15 Aug 08		With Less Pressure, More Room to be a Ham » China Journal Nastia Liukin of the U.S. just won the gold in the all-around women’s gymnastics competition, but it was Russia’s Ksenia Semenova who tried to win the crowd. Russia’s Ksenia Semenova on Friday (Photo by AP) The showdown Friday at the...
14 Aug 08		Why it matters if a gymnast is 14. » Shanghai Scrap For what it’s worth, I have a feeling that the simmering controversey over whether or not the Chinese “women’s” gymnastics team has underage members is going to build into something much bigger, and possibly devolve into something...

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