Seriously, Nastia Liukin has accepted that facts...Why can't you people?

"My family and I are pleased with the level of scrutiny the FIG and IOC undertook with this very serious issue. When the questions arouse originally in the press all anyone in the gymnastics and Olympic communities wanted was closure which we now have. Again, I congratulate my competitors from China and look forward to using my successes to help others and highlight issues that I care about including funding for cancer research, teen obesity and giving teens and tweens an opportunity to make the right life choices.”

6:38, they ARE children. They only have to turn 16 this year. That said, you're probably right and 10:29 will be on the first plane.

10:29: "The beauty of Asians" is that the women look younger than Western women. Spoken by a true pedophile. Go back to your parents' basement.

Please. Next they are going to tell us the moon is made out of cheese.

Okay 10:29, Shawn Johnson surely does NOT look older than 18. Nastia looks about 18. And Alicia Sacramone looks older than 18, which she IS. So your comment is just weird because they never all claimed to be 18. Anyway, the scrutiny of the Chinese gymnasts wasn't based solely on looks. It's based on the fact that there has been a history of gymnasts being entered before they are 16 and the truth isn't exposed until later.

12:41 AM Anonymous Says:

This is all about the USA team trying to take away all the team gold medals China has won. seriously, as a team, USA team really wasn't comparable. If the CHN team really were underage, that makes USA gymnasts look even worse.

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If the Chinese gymnasts were underage it would actually give them an ADVANTAGE over the other competitors. Young children are less fearful than older competitors of trying more difficult and dangerous moves. This would give them a huge advantage over the older competitors.

Some of you are probably too young to remember watching the Olympics during the time when there was a Eastern block of communist countries competiting. The judges always banded together and gave higher scores to other communist countries. It typically happened during figure skating and gymastics.

House registers....hmmmm that's interesting. They will never be able to prove this anyway because their birth system is different from ours not to mention its a foreign country. You would have to do a physical exam and bone study to probably prove this. We know they are underage, anyone can see that. This is not about the US being sore losers, it's about the Olympics being fair competition. People who test positive for illegal substances are disqualified so why should competitiors who lie about their age. Proving it with these foreign countries is the burden.

It only shows one thing ... the US doesn't like losing ... I wonder who started the rumors in the first place!

This is all about the USA team trying to take away all the team gold medals China has won. seriously, as a team, USA team really wasn't comparable. If the CHN team really were underage, that makes USA gymnasts look even worse.
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You missed the point completely. Even if the Chinese girls are better gymnasts, the point is, did China follow the rules? If China broke the rules (which I believe they did) and the girls were underage, then it wouldn't matter if they won because the teams were not competing on the same same level to begin with and the competition itself would be unfair. Think about it. Michael Phelps wouldn't compete against a 12 year old swimmer, would he? No. Another example: If you had a 12 year old son who played on a soccer team with boys his age, they would compete with other male soccer teams who were also 12 or 13, not teams with boys who were 16 or 17 years old. That would be comparing apples to oranges, not apples to apples. Likewise, girls who just entered their teens are typically seen as better gymnastics because they're usually lighter and don't injure as easily as girls who are a little older (like Nastia) and have been competing longer, and therefore, have had more opportunities to get hurt. This is about following protocol to make competition fair, not some vendetta.

This is all about the USA team trying to take away all the team gold medals China has won. seriously, as a team, USA team really wasn't comparable. If the CHN team really were underage, that makes USA gymnasts look even worse. How embarrassing for some "12/14 year old girls" to beat the of-age world champs..

i'm 24 y.o chinese female. last winter i went to purchase a ski lift ticket and i was given a youth ticket. "looking" at someone doesn't mean anything.

Geez laweez... just because it looks like the girl from China was underage doesn't mean she was underage. God, it's like all some people are doing is just talking about how Nastia should have been the best at everything...let it go the Chinese girl was not underage and she won.

I don't believe it

China is all about image, I am sure it wasn't difficult to get their documents "doctored". But what can you do?

Interesting news, etc. Glad Nastia Liukin's problems were settled.

Hope they checked for white out. Yeah, I believe it was on the bars because of the whole tie thing. They should just award two gold medals like they did when her dad was in the Olympics. Is it just me, or is her dad hot?