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I keep on hearing numerous media people bitching about China hosting the Olympics and still making references to the tiananmen square incident from the late 80's. These guys act like the US is all perfect and China is a shithole that shouldn't hold the Olympics.
First of all that incident was over 20 years ago and the country has been changing. Yet they keep on refering to how china put this "fresh coat of paint" to hide what Beijing is really like.
How about New Orleans? The NBA hosted their all-star game there. I never heard one bad reference about that. They did the same thing. They put this fresh coat of paint on the city to show that life is back to normal yet there are still thousands and thousands of families still displaced, thousands of homes in ruins and the failure of the gov. to fix this years later is an embarassement. Yet they put this whole positive spin on it like it's a rebuilding of the city. Why can't the Olympics be a rebuilding of China?
The next BS I keep on hearing about is pollution in China. Well there's a reason why there's so much pollution. This is because all of the millions and millions of Americans that can't get enough of cheap chinese goods from Walmart. China's air is so polluted because they are filling our insatiable need for cheap chinese made crap.
Some ESPN commentator was all livid about China and claimed he wouldn't watch the Olympics because the visual of tiananmen square is still in his head. Yet I bet this is the same person that probably eats chinese food once a week, shops at walmart or target and probably 70% of his home has a "Made in China" stamp on it.
The hypocracy is outstanding. Get over it. 1 out of every 5 people in this world is Chinese, live with it.
America always talks about change and rebuilding yet they are as negative as can be about China who is trying to do the same. Sure there are things that go on there that we can't understand but this nation isn't innocent either. China has about 5 to 6 times more people than us but the amount of deaths related to guns is about 500 times less.
Having over a billion people to govern is not easy and being able to give all of them a quality of life is not possible.
The great USA still has thousand and thousands of children that barely get a meal a day, thousands of people that live in the streets and that have to beg for food. I read a sad stat that a handful of people a day die from malnutrition. The same cause of death of a lot of people in poor African nations. But wait we're better than Africa right? Not really. There is such a disparity between classes that most people don't really know how some people have to live in the USA.
Before people get all judgmental about China hosting the Olympics and walking around like their shit don't stink should first look in their own backyard before passing judgment on others.
Rant over, I'm off of my soapbox now.
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what the hell is this
there used to be stalk only and now we have 8-10 people posting like him?
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Sounds like you should go live in China you fucking traitor!
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Sounds like you should go live in China you fucking traitor!
Being patiot is not always kissing ass of your country without any condition.
Bob Dyran and Bruce Springsteen criticize a lot about america and they call themselves as patriots.
Why they do it? Cus they love america and they want to improve it.
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Being patiot is not always kissing ass of your country without any condition.
Bob Dyran and Bruce Springsteen criticize a lot about america and they call themselves as patriots.
Why they do it? Cus they love america and they want to improve it.
"Dyran"
Seriously bro I know thats how you Japs pronounce it but I'm sure you can at least type it properly.
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"Dyran"
Seriously bro I know thats how you Japs pronounce it but I'm sure you can at least type it properly.
sorry.
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sorry.
That's ok, don't do it again though.
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sorry.
It's "so solly".
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It's "so solly".
bahahahahahaha!!!
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I keep on hearing numerous media people bitching about China hosting the Olympics and still making references to the tiananmen square incident from the late 80's. These guys act like the US is all perfect and China is a shithole that shouldn't hold the Olympics.
First of all that incident was over 20 years ago and the country has been changing. Yet they keep on refering to how china put this "fresh coat of paint" to hide what Beijing is really like.
How about New Orleans? The NBA hosted their all-star game there. I never heard one bad reference about that. They did the same thing. They put this fresh coat of paint on the city to show that life is back to normal yet there are still thousands and thousands of families still displaced, thousands of homes in ruins and the failure of the gov. to fix this years later is an embarassement. Yet they put this whole positive spin on it like it's a rebuilding of the city. Why can't the Olympics be a rebuilding of China?
The next BS I keep on hearing about is pollution in China. Well there's a reason why there's so much pollution. This is because all of the millions and millions of Americans that can't get enough of cheap chinese goods from Walmart. China's air is so polluted because they are filling our insatiable need for cheap chinese made crap.
Some ESPN commentator was all livid about China and claimed he wouldn't watch the Olympics because the visual of tiananmen square is still in his head. Yet I bet this is the same person that probably eats chinese food once a week, shops at walmart or target and probably 70% of his home has a "Made in China" stamp on it.
The hypocracy is outstanding. Get over it. 1 out of every 5 people in this world is Chinese, live with it.
America always talks about change and rebuilding yet they are as negative as can be about China who is trying to do the same. Sure there are things that go on there that we can't understand but this nation isn't innocent either. China has about 5 to 6 times more people than us but the amount of deaths related to guns is about 500 times less.
Having over a billion people to govern is not easy and being able to give all of them a quality of life is not possible.
The great USA still has thousand and thousands of children that barely get a meal a day, thousands of people that live in the streets and that have to beg for food. I read a sad stat that a handful of people a day die from malnutrition. The same cause of death of a lot of people in poor African nations. But wait we're better than Africa right? Not really. There is such a disparity between classes that most people don't really know how some people have to live in the USA.
Before people get all judgmental about China hosting the Olympics and walking around like their shit don't stink should first look in their own backyard before passing judgment on others.
Rant over, I'm off of my soapbox now.
Okay, you hate America.
that is your right to an opinion.
My fact that I look at is the continued disgraceful, hideous human rights injustices that China continues to propagate.
Check Sudan and Darfur.
They sicken me.
And I didn't need ten long paragraphs to say this.,
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Being patiot is not always kissing ass of your country without any condition.
Bob Dyran and Bruce Springsteen criticize a lot about america and they call themselves as patriots.
Why they do it? Cus they love america and they want to improve it.
No.
Because they are weak-spermed liberals.
See you on the compulsory thread later, Kyomu.
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Let's see. They're bitching about it because China reneged on every promise they made that won them the right to host the games in the first place.
Clean up pollution? Nope.
Give freedom of speech to all foreigners? Nope.
Free access to China's countryside? Nope.
Putting 12 year old girls on their gymnastics team to win medals? Yup.
List goes on and on.
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sorry.
don't you mean "solly"?
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Being patiot is not always kissing ass of your country without any condition.
Bob Dyran and Bruce Springsteen criticize a lot about america and they call themselves as patriots.
Why they do it? Cus they love america and they want to improve it.
Socialists always claim to love their country but they also try to "improve" it as they see fit.
To them that means ensuring their version of fairness.. taking the masses money for what THEY deem worthy, legislation through the justice system and revisionist history, propaganda and misinformation, and a shift from individual rights to "common" or state's rights.
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Let's see. They're bitching about it because China reneged on every promise they made that won them the right to host the games in the first place.
Clean up pollution? Nope.
Give freedom of speech to all foreigners? Nope.
Free access to China's countryside? Nope.
Putting 12 year old girls on their gymnastics team to win medals? Yup.
List goes on and on.
the only thing I don't understand about your argument is the 12 yr old gymnasts part. I mean, it's probably true that they're abused and all but for the sake of competition what does it matter the age of a competitor? If we can't beat a 12 yr old??? :-[
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I keep on hearing numerous media people bitching about China hosting the Olympics and still making references to the tiananmen square incident from the late 80's. These guys act like the US is all perfect and China is a shithole that shouldn't hold the Olympics.
First of all that incident was over 20 years ago and the country has been changing. Yet they keep on refering to how china put this "fresh coat of paint" to hide what Beijing is really like.
How about New Orleans? The NBA hosted their all-star game there. I never heard one bad reference about that. They did the same thing. They put this fresh coat of paint on the city to show that life is back to normal yet there are still thousands and thousands of families still displaced, thousands of homes in ruins and the failure of the gov. to fix this years later is an embarassement. Yet they put this whole positive spin on it like it's a rebuilding of the city. Why can't the Olympics be a rebuilding of China?
The next BS I keep on hearing about is pollution in China. Well there's a reason why there's so much pollution. This is because all of the millions and millions of Americans that can't get enough of cheap chinese goods from Walmart. China's air is so polluted because they are filling our insatiable need for cheap chinese made crap.
Some ESPN commentator was all livid about China and claimed he wouldn't watch the Olympics because the visual of tiananmen square is still in his head. Yet I bet this is the same person that probably eats chinese food once a week, shops at walmart or target and probably 70% of his home has a "Made in China" stamp on it.
The hypocracy is outstanding. Get over it. 1 out of every 5 people in this world is Chinese, live with it.
America always talks about change and rebuilding yet they are as negative as can be about China who is trying to do the same. Sure there are things that go on there that we can't understand but this nation isn't innocent either. China has about 5 to 6 times more people than us but the amount of deaths related to guns is about 500 times less.
Having over a billion people to govern is not easy and being able to give all of them a quality of life is not possible.
The great USA still has thousand and thousands of children that barely get a meal a day, thousands of people that live in the streets and that have to beg for food. I read a sad stat that a handful of people a day die from malnutrition. The same cause of death of a lot of people in poor African nations. But wait we're better than Africa right? Not really. There is such a disparity between classes that most people don't really know how some people have to live in the USA.
Before people get all judgmental about China hosting the Olympics and walking around like their shit don't stink should first look in their own backyard before passing judgment on others.
Rant over, I'm off of my soapbox now.
GOOD TO SEE YOU HAVE INSIGHT INTO THE REALITIES OF AMERICA...
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Okay, you hate America.
that is your right to an opinion.
My fact that I look at is the continued disgraceful, hideous human rights injustices that China continues to propagate.
Check Sudan and Darfur.
They sicken me.
And I didn't need ten long paragraphs to say this.,
Look you stupid old fuck he doesn't hate america, it's just your double standard in thinking you have all these human rights and laws that protect you but remember this you have Extraordinary Rendition where anyone can be arrested with no access to lawyers or family and you're flown to Egypt or Syria to be tortured. And you should worry you look like an arab.
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Being patiot is not always kissing ass of your country without any condition.
Bob Dyran and Bruce Springsteen criticize a lot about america and they call themselves as patriots.
Why they do it? Cus they love america and they want to improve it.
Dylan and SpringSTEIN would have you believe they are true patriots when in fact they have a Jewish agenda to which they are held accountable for. Do not believe the lies that spew from their forked tongues. Their day is coming.
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Dylan and SpringSTEIN would have you believe they are true patriots when in fact they have a Jewish agenda to which they are held accountable for. Do not believe the lies that spew from their forked tongues. Their day is coming.
I'm Jewish and an outspoken conservative. Their liberalism has nothing to do with being Jews. A lot of Jews are starting to realize how important destroying Arab fanaticism is.
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Prisons in America are traded on the stock exchange...Locking poor people up in cages for decades is worse then killing them if you ask me...And to do it with the mindset of turning a profit is something that every american should be ashamed of...
Watching the mens team in gymnastics shows exactly how the ego of the american is a fcking joke...These dipshits are huddling up and celebrating there 3rd place bronze medal while other countries athletes are still on the floor...
Then you have phelps who is seen talking during the playing of his national anthem...
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I'm Jewish and an outspoken conservative. Their liberalism has nothing to do with being Jews. A lot of Jews are starting to realize how important destroying Arab fanaticism is.
A jew war hawk is the worst kind. You'd have the world destroyed only to see your six point agenda furthered. Shame!
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I keep on hearing numerous media people bitching about China hosting the Olympics and still making references to the tiananmen square incident from the late 80's. These guys act like the US is all perfect and China is a shithole that shouldn't hold the Olympics.
First of all that incident was over 20 years ago and the country has been changing. Yet they keep on refering to how china put this "fresh coat of paint" to hide what Beijing is really like.
How about New Orleans? The NBA hosted their all-star game there. I never heard one bad reference about that. They did the same thing. They put this fresh coat of paint on the city to show that life is back to normal yet there are still thousands and thousands of families still displaced, thousands of homes in ruins and the failure of the gov. to fix this years later is an embarassement. Yet they put this whole positive spin on it like it's a rebuilding of the city. Why can't the Olympics be a rebuilding of China?
The next BS I keep on hearing about is pollution in China. Well there's a reason why there's so much pollution. This is because all of the millions and millions of Americans that can't get enough of cheap chinese goods from Walmart. China's air is so polluted because they are filling our insatiable need for cheap chinese made crap.
Some ESPN commentator was all livid about China and claimed he wouldn't watch the Olympics because the visual of tiananmen square is still in his head. Yet I bet this is the same person that probably eats chinese food once a week, shops at walmart or target and probably 70% of his home has a "Made in China" stamp on it.
The hypocracy is outstanding. Get over it. 1 out of every 5 people in this world is Chinese, live with it.
America always talks about change and rebuilding yet they are as negative as can be about China who is trying to do the same. Sure there are things that go on there that we can't understand but this nation isn't innocent either. China has about 5 to 6 times more people than us but the amount of deaths related to guns is about 500 times less.
Having over a billion people to govern is not easy and being able to give all of them a quality of life is not possible.
The great USA still has thousand and thousands of children that barely get a meal a day, thousands of people that live in the streets and that have to beg for food. I read a sad stat that a handful of people a day die from malnutrition. The same cause of death of a lot of people in poor African nations. But wait we're better than Africa right? Not really. There is such a disparity between classes that most people don't really know how some people have to live in the USA.
Before people get all judgmental about China hosting the Olympics and walking around like their shit don't stink should first look in their own backyard before passing judgment on others.
Rant over, I'm off of my soapbox now.
- Ten thousand
prisoners who might be guilty, who knows? I mean we are dealing with an obviously accountable regime undoubtedly guilty prisoners executed every year to in order to supply the vital organs to the chinese transplant business thus ensuring its four billion dollar annual profit (the first the families know about it is when some slope in a uniform turns up on the doorstep with a fucking urn) - three quarters of the rivers glow in the fucking dark
- the oil that the politicians tell you is running out (and that dumb fucks like you and 240 believe is running out) is actually piped to the slopes so they can experience unprecedented rates of private car ownership whilst you fuckiwts pay fuck knows how much per pissing gallon
- steel prices through the roof as we give every last ounce to the yellow peril thus allowing them to build the aforementioned cars and war machine...
... but yeah, they might not be that fucking bad
you thick cunt
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Socialists always claim to love their country but they also try to "improve" it as they see fit.
To them that means ensuring their version of fairness.. taking the masses money for what THEY deem worthy, legislation through the justice system and revisionist history, propaganda and misinformation, and a shift from individual rights to "common" or state's rights.
Right on.
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Look you stupid old fuck he doesn't hate america, it's just your double standard in thinking you have all these human rights and laws that protect you but remember this you have Extraordinary Rendition where anyone can be arrested with no access to lawyers or family and you're flown to Egypt or Syria to be tortured. And you should worry you look like an arab.
Chester, you need help. Let me know if I can be of assistance to you.
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Prisons in America are traded on the stock exchange...Locking poor people up in cages for decades is worse then killing them if you ask me...And to do it with the mindset of turning a profit is something that every american should be ashamed of...
Watching the mens team in gymnastics shows exactly how the ego of the american is a fcking joke...These dipshits are huddling up and celebrating there 3rd place bronze medal while other countries athletes are still on the floor...
Then you have phelps who is seen talking during the playing of his national anthem...
Phelps should know better, but he is just a kid.
And he is the best athlete in history, bar none, and he is OURS.
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Okay, you hate America.
that is your right to an opinion.
My fact that I look at is the continued disgraceful, hideous human rights injustices that China continues to propagate.
Check Sudan and Darfur.
They sicken me.
And I didn't need ten long paragraphs to say this.,
haha you are seriously retarded aren't you? Isn't the US the same country that gave Sadaam WMD's to use vs Iran? Isn't this the same country that continually abuses human rights of prisoners of war by calling them 'enemy combatants'? Don't they fly them to countries with dictators to torture these people? Give me a break the Americans are the worst human rights abuser of all, then they have the audacity to call other countries out. Oh and isn't america the same country that helped host a whole lot of Nazi scientists harbouring them from prosecution to get information? I think it is. What a clown you are moosejay, what a clown.
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A jew war hawk is the worst kind. You'd have the world destroyed only to see your six point agenda furthered. Shame!
A Jew war hawk is huge supporter of the US and democracy. Considering our relationship with Israel I think you should give Jews and their intentions a little more respect and gratitude!!!
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haha you are seriously retarded aren't you? Isn't the US the same country that gave Sadaam WMD's to use vs Iran? Isn't this the same country that continually abuses human rights of prisoners of war by calling them 'enemy combatants'? Don't they fly them to countries with dictators to torture these people? Give me a break the Americans are the worst human rights abuser of all, then they have the audacity to call other countries out. Oh and isn't america the same country that helped host a whole lot of Nazi scientists harbouring them from prosecution to get information? I think it is. What a clown you are moosejay, what a clown.
Damn you're dumb.
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the Americans are the worst human rights abuser of all
Dude, you're off the reservation. Do some research on this and get back to the rest of us in reality.
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I'm Jewish and an outspoken conservative. Their liberalism has nothing to do with being Jews. A lot of Jews are starting to realize how important destroying Arab fanaticism is.
Hmm. You should look into partitioning, maybe create some ghettos, give them second-class status complete with identity cards, remove access to water sources, take away their hope for the future, etc. Oh wait. *SNAP*
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Dude, you're off the reservation. Do some research on this and get back to the rest of us in reality.
There's no point.
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There's no point.
lol don't be afraid of having to admit to the rest of us that you're entirely wrong.
Do it anyway, educate yourself.
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Hmm. You should look into partitioning, maybe create some ghettos, give them second-class status complete with identity cards, remove access to water sources, take away their hope for the future, etc. Oh wait. *SNAP*
Maybe they could start blowing up their civilians and indoctrinate their children into believing that jews are descended from pigs and apes with blood libel on their vampire hands? Hmmm...THEN we would be cookin' with gas my friend. Off the fucking HOOK! :D
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All chinese men are nerds, they are not dominant enough to hold the Olympics
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Hmm. You should look into partitioning, maybe create some ghettos, give them second-class status complete with identity cards, remove access to water sources, take away their hope for the future, etc. Oh wait. *SNAP*
If palestinians really wanted peace they'd stop negotiating by killing innocent israelis. But they don't... they want israels destruction. Israel shouldn't apologize for defending itself from animals.
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If palestinians really wanted peace they'd stop negotiating by killing innocent israelis. But they don't... they want israels destruction. Israel shouldn't apologize for defending itself from animals.
Half the arab world fucking hates Palestinians but they tolerate them becuase it's bad PR for Isreal.
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If palestinians really wanted peace they'd stop negotiating by killing innocent israelis. But they don't... they want israels destruction. Israel shouldn't apologize for defending itself from animals.
Hmmm. I have big problems with the various Palestinian groups (Hamas, Fatah, etc.) that would rather have an armed insurgency than any kind of settlement for their people, but the wretchedness that the state of Israel has perpetuated on its Arab population is inexcusable. Say what you want in reply, but it is nothing but shameful. :-\
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Hmmm. I have big problems with the various Palestinian groups (Hamas, Fatah, etc.) that would rather have an armed insurgency than any kind of settlement for their people, but the wretchedness that the state of Israel has perpetuated on its Arab population is inexcusable. Say what you want in reply, but it is nothing but shameful. :-\
What israel has done in the name of defending itself isn't a tenth as bad as what PLs have done in the name of allah.
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Half the arab world fucking hates Palestinians but they tolerate them becuase it's bad PR for Isreal.
Ha! Places like Saudi also like it because it removes the spotlight from their disgusting regime. >:(
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China is bad.
End of story.
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BEIJING - Just nine months before the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese government's news agency, Xinhua, reported that gymnast He Kexin was 13, which would have made her ineligible to be on the team that won a gold medal this week.
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In its report Nov. 3, Xinhua identified He as one of "10 big new stars" who made a splash at China's Cities Games. It gave her age as 13 and reported that she beat Yang Yilin on the uneven bars at those games. In the final, "this little girl" pulled off a difficult release move on the bars known as the Li Na, named for another Chinese gymnast, Xinhua said in the report, which appeared on one of its Web sites, http://www.hb.xinhuanet.com
The Associated Press found the Xinhua report on the site Thursday morning and saved a copy of the page. Later that afternoon, the Web site was still working but the page was no longer accessible. Sports editors at the state-run news agency would not comment for publication.
If the age reported by Xinhua was correct, that would have meant He was too young to be on the Chinese team that beat the United States on Wednesday and clinched China's first women's team Olympic gold in gymnastics. He is also a favorite for gold in Monday's uneven bars final.
Yang was also on Wednesday's winning team. Questions have also been raised about her age and that of a third team member, Jiang Yuyuan.
Gymnasts have to be 16 during the Olympic year to be eligible for the games. He's birthday is listed as Jan. 1, 1992.
Chinese authorities insist that all three are old enough to compete. He herself told reporters after Wednesday's final that "my real age is 16. I don't pay any attention to what everyone says."
Zhang Hongliang, an official with China's gymnastics delegation at the games, said Thursday the differing ages which have appeared in Chinese media reports had not been checked in advance with the gymnastics federation.
"It's definitely a mistake," Zhang said of the Xinhua report, speaking in a telephone interview. "Never has any media outlet called me to check the athletes' ages."
Asked whether the federation had changed their ages to make them eligible, Zhang said: "We are a sports department. How would we have the ability to do that?"
"We already explained this very clearly. There's no need to discuss this thing again."
The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) has said repeatedly that a passport is the "accepted proof of a gymnast's eligibility," and that He and China's other gymnasts have presented ones that show they are age eligible. The IOC also checked the girls' passports and deemed them valid.
A May 23 story in the China Daily newspaper, the official English-language paper of the Chinese government, said He was 14. The story was later corrected to list her as 16.
"This is not a USAG issue," said Steve Penny, president of USA Gymnastics. "The FIG and the IOC are the proper bodies to handle this."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080814/ap_on_sp_ol/oly_gym_underage_chinese
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Jesus, thats just pathetic.
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China tampering with marksman's gun:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/2555974/Beijing-Olympics-Cheating-accusation-from-Indian-shooter-Abhinav-Bindra.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/2555974/Beijing-Olympics-Cheating-accusation-from-Indian-shooter-Abhinav-Bindra.html)
"Bindra has recalled going to the toilet at the same time his German coach Gabriela Buehlmann went out for a cigarette, leaving the gun unattended. It was at this moment that the Indians suspect the rifle was tampered with.
The allegations of cheating come a day after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was forced to answer allegations in the US media that three of China's gold-medal winning gymnastics team were underage."
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China tampering with marksman's gun:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/2555974/Beijing-Olympics-Cheating-accusation-from-Indian-shooter-Abhinav-Bindra.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/2555974/Beijing-Olympics-Cheating-accusation-from-Indian-shooter-Abhinav-Bindra.html)
"Bindra has recalled going to the toilet at the same time his German coach Gabriela Buehlmann went out for a cigarette, leaving the gun unattended. It was at this moment that the Indians suspect the rifle was tampered with.
The allegations of cheating come a day after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was forced to answer allegations in the US media that three of China's gold-medal winning gymnastics team were underage."
Like I said...China-they are up to NO GOOD.
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A little girl and her song captivated millions of viewers during the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. But what they saw was not what they heard.
Lin Miaoke was the darling of the Olympic opening ceremony, but it turns out she was lip-syncing.
Games organizers confirm that Lin Miaoke, who performed "Ode to the Motherland" as China's flag was paraded Friday into Beijing's National Stadium, was not singing at all.
Lin was lip-syncing to the sound of another girl, 7-year-old Yang Peiyi, who was heard but not seen, apparently because she was deemed not cute enough.
"The reason was for the national interest," said Chen Qigang, the ceremony's musical director, in a state radio interview. "The child on camera should be flawless in image, internal feeling and expression. ... Lin Miaoke is excellent in those aspects."
The decision was made at the highest levels, Chen said.
"We had to do it," he said. "We'd been through several inspections. They're all very strict. When we rehearsed at the spot, there were several spectators from various divisions, especially leaders from the Politburo, who gave the opinion it must change." Video Watch a Chinese official defend the move »
Few who watched the Olympic ceremony realized the deception. "Tiny singer wins heart of nation," read the headline in Tuesday's China Daily newspaper.
"Lin Miaoke might be only 9 years old but she is well on her way to becoming a star, thanks to her heartwarming performance," the article gushed -- without mentioning she never sang a note.
But as word has gotten out on the Internet, some Chinese bloggers are outraged.
"If you're not good-looking, no matter how well you sing, you'll not be onstage. Do you know you're twisting a whole generation?" read one comment.
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Another said, "If foreigners found out, they'd think we can't even find a girl who is good at both." iReport.com: Share your Olympic spirit
As for Yang Peiyi, she's been quoted as saying she was honored to have had a role in the opening ceremony, even though few realized just how big her part really was.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/12/oly.kids/index.html?iref=newssearch
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Like I said...China-they are up to NO GOOD.
tons of cheating stories here.
http://sports.inquirer.net/breakingnews/breakingnews/view/20080813-154426/China-under-microscope-as-cheating-rows-flare (http://sports.inquirer.net/breakingnews/breakingnews/view/20080813-154426/China-under-microscope-as-cheating-rows-flare)
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China is bad.
End of story.
C'mon, Moose. Relax. It wouldn't be a real Olympics without a Communist country trying to cheat their way to the podium, now would it? :D
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haha you are seriously retarded aren't you? Isn't the US the same country that gave Sadaam WMD's to use vs Iran? Isn't this the same country that continually abuses human rights of prisoners of war by calling them 'enemy combatants'? Don't they fly them to countries with dictators to torture these people? Give me a break the Americans are the worst human rights abuser of all, then they have the audacity to call other countries out. Oh and isn't america the same country that helped host a whole lot of Nazi scientists harbouring them from prosecution to get information? I think it is. What a clown you are moosejay, what a clown.
Oliver Stone called. You're late for the meeting.
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No.
Because they are weak-spermed liberals.
See you on the compulsory thread later, Kyomu.
Strong people always admit their weak points and improve them.
Thats why they are strong.
Weak people always hide away from their weak points and leave them.
Thats why they are weak.
True lovers are always very critic toward the thing which they love.
Cus they dont hide themselves away from thr truth.
Strong mind.
P.S. I am waiting for your e-mail long time..
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Phelps should know better, but he is just a kid.
And he is the best athlete in history, bar none, and he is OURS.
Whats the story with Phelps dad? They never mention him or who he is...Its obvious that he didn't get his genetics from that fat bullfrog he calls Mom...
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China is bad.
End of story.
And when have you spent time in China to back this statement up? You are so full of it it's now beyond funny
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And when have you spent time in China to back this statement up? You are so full of it it's now beyond funny
Why would he have to go there, you fucking tool?
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A little girl and her song captivated millions of viewers during the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. But what they saw was not what they heard.
Lin Miaoke was the darling of the Olympic opening ceremony, but it turns out she was lip-syncing.
Games organizers confirm that Lin Miaoke, who performed "Ode to the Motherland" as China's flag was paraded Friday into Beijing's National Stadium, was not singing at all.
Lin was lip-syncing to the sound of another girl, 7-year-old Yang Peiyi, who was heard but not seen, apparently because she was deemed not cute enough.
"The reason was for the national interest," said Chen Qigang, the ceremony's musical director, in a state radio interview. "The child on camera should be flawless in image, internal feeling and expression. ... Lin Miaoke is excellent in those aspects."
The decision was made at the highest levels, Chen said.
"We had to do it," he said. "We'd been through several inspections. They're all very strict. When we rehearsed at the spot, there were several spectators from various divisions, especially leaders from the Politburo, who gave the opinion it must change." Video Watch a Chinese official defend the move »
Few who watched the Olympic ceremony realized the deception. "Tiny singer wins heart of nation," read the headline in Tuesday's China Daily newspaper.
"Lin Miaoke might be only 9 years old but she is well on her way to becoming a star, thanks to her heartwarming performance," the article gushed -- without mentioning she never sang a note.
But as word has gotten out on the Internet, some Chinese bloggers are outraged.
"If you're not good-looking, no matter how well you sing, you'll not be onstage. Do you know you're twisting a whole generation?" read one comment.
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Another said, "If foreigners found out, they'd think we can't even find a girl who is good at both." iReport.com: Share your Olympic spirit
As for Yang Peiyi, she's been quoted as saying she was honored to have had a role in the opening ceremony, even though few realized just how big her part really was.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/12/oly.kids/index.html?iref=newssearch
Once again the know it all ( but knows nothing) uni student gets it all wrong. Don't just beleive everything the Us media feeds you. One day when you've acctually lived in other countries and know sonething of other cultures you may just realise how wrong you are. This highly doubt though. So you and MooosJerk keep going with you uneducated rubbish,for at the end of the day we who live here everyday know the truth, and you will continue to make up and beleive lies and half truths.
The girl is 16 end of story. Reporters have been given the freedom to report the Olympics, They are there to do that anything else is really none of their business if they are there to report the Olympics.
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Why would he have to go there, you fucking tool?
If you hasve to ask that question your even dumber than I thought.
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Once again the know it all ( but knows nothing) uni student gets it all wrong. Don't just beleive everything the Us media feeds you. One day when you've acctually lived in other countries and know sonething of other cultures you may just realise how wrong you are. This highly doubt though. So you and MooosJerk keep going with you uneducated rubbish,for at the end of the day we who live here everyday know the truth, and you will continue to make up and beleive lies and half truths.
The girl is 16 end of story. Reporters have been given the freedom to report the Olympics, They are there to do that anything else is really none of their business if they are there to report the Olympics.
A chinese trainer said she was 13 y.o. months ago, idiot.
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A chinese trainer said she was 13 y.o. months ago, idiot.
Actually a Chinese trainer didn't. So you are the idiot. The miscommunication came from the regionasl goverment.
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Actually a Chinese trainer didn't. So you are the idiot. The miscommunication came from the regionasl goverment.
Do you get paid for this?
(http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/www.nationalpost.com/sports/beijing-games/715969.bin?size=404x272)