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springparrot wrote:

Brown Eyed Girl wrote:

springparrot wrote:If I counted right and I included diving, because I don't know what the age requirement is, but they look really young too---China could lose as many as 11 medals if everyone is underage

I don't think the entire team is under 16, I do think some just look young. Hell, so did ours for a number of years...this is really the first year they have all looked normal. But I'd say at least 3 of China's gymnasts are under 16. Divers don't have the age requirement, and the one diver flat out said that she doesn't eat (which is why she switched from gynastics to diving), so of course she's going to look small.

the one that weighed about 65 lbs

No,they aren't all underage, but even with just the gymnists, if someone on the team is underage, would they have to give back all the team medals?

I would think so, but IMHO if the IOC decided that one or more of the chinese gymnasts were underage they still aren't going to take away the medals.

springparrot wrote:

Brown Eyed Girl wrote:

springparrot wrote:If I counted right and I included diving, because I don't know what the age requirement is, but they look really young too---China could lose as many as 11 medals if everyone is underage

I don't think the entire team is under 16, I do think some just look young. Hell, so did ours for a number of years...this is really the first year they have all looked normal. But I'd say at least 3 of China's gymnasts are under 16. Divers don't have the age requirement, and the one diver flat out said that she doesn't eat (which is why she switched from gynastics to diving), so of course she's going to look small.

the one that weighed about 65 lbs

No,they aren't all underage, but even with just the gymnists, if someone on the team is underage, would they have to give back all the team medals?

Yes, the entire team would lose their medals. I was just thinking out loud in my post.

Didn't get any Olympic updates for a few hours, and I completely missed the story about the age investigation.

Diving on now is pretty awesome.

Bob Costas has been cracking me up. He looked so proud of himself tonight when he was able to us the line that the American track team had "laid an egg in the birds nest".

BFinnsUp wrote:Bob Costas has been cracking me up. He looked so proud of himself tonight when he was able to us the line that the American track team had "laid an egg in the birds nest".

He's been saving that one!

Last one for the day

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There is a PARROT HEAD in the mens 10m platform diving tonight.

Matthew Helm - he and his father are parrot heads.

They are also from Newcastle

GO MATT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nycfeat wrote:I remember hearing that one of the girls wanted to quit, but her parents wouldn't let her.

If you're thinking of a gymnast, it was Chung Fe.

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springparrot wrote:1 United States 31 36 35 total=102

BFinnsUp wrote:Bob Costas has been cracking me up. He looked so proud of himself tonight when he was able to us the line that the American track team had "laid an egg in the birds nest".

I didn't watch Bob Costas last night, so I'm curious:
Was he referring to the rotten-egg performance of the US 4 x 100m relay teams?

Yeah, Costas can get on my nerves at times.

Brown Eyed Girl wrote:

springparrot wrote:

Brown Eyed Girl wrote:

springparrot wrote:If I counted right and I included diving, because I don't know what the age requirement is, but they look really young too---China could lose as many as 11 medals if everyone is underage

I don't think the entire team is under 16, I do think some just look young. Hell, so did ours for a number of years...this is really the first year they have all looked normal. But I'd say at least 3 of China's gymnasts are under 16. Divers don't have the age requirement, and the one diver flat out said that she doesn't eat (which is why she switched from gynastics to diving), so of course she's going to look small.

the one that weighed about 65 lbs

No,they aren't all underage, but even with just the gymnists, if someone on the team is underage, would they have to give back all the team medals?

Yes, the entire team would lose their medals. I was just thinking out loud in my post.

I'd do more than just strip the athletes/team of their medals:
I think justice would demand that a 5-year sanction on the whole Chinese women's gymnastics program be imposed. That is, the Chinese gymnastic women's teams would be banned from international competitions for 5 years, up to and including world championships and the next Olympics in 2012. Which means, China could not send a women's gymnastics team to the Olympics until 2016.
Sorry, but this sort of shenanigan stinks of collusion between "grownups" in the Chinese sports federation/s and quite possibly the government. The boom really needs to be lowered on them - do it just one time, and every other national gymnastics team in the world would take note. Everybody would be scared straight. They're not scared right now.

Sorry for the rant.

A1A-BJB wrote:

BFinnsUp wrote:Bob Costas has been cracking me up. He looked so proud of himself tonight when he was able to us the line that the American track team had "laid an egg in the birds nest".

I didn't watch Bob Costas last night, so I'm curious:
Was he referring to the rotten-egg performance of the US 4 x 100m relay teams?

Yeah, Costas can get on my nerves at times.

I think it was

You can't tell me the Chinese are above trying this because they have a history of doing it. The gymnast age minimum goes back to 1997. On CHINESE CENTRAL TV a Chinese gymnast named Yang Yun, who won 2 bronze medals at Sydney in 2000, admitted she was only 14 at the time. It shows a previous willingness to flaunt the rules.

WOOOO HOOOO!

Just woke up to the news that Australia just won its FIRST gold medal in the field in 60 years!!!!!

Not spoiling with the event (not one I would watch anyway) ...

but

WOW!!!!

(cause we pretty much s*** on track and field - this is exciting!)

and woo hoo for the parrot head that is diving!! He done good!!!! He has been battling vertigo Not something you would expect a diver to be wanting to suffer from!!!

creeky wrote:WOOOO HOOOO!

Just woke up to the news that Australia just won its FIRST gold medal in the field in 60 years!!!!!

Not spoiling with the event (not one I would watch anyway) ...

but

WOW!!!!

(cause we pretty much s*** on track and field - this is exciting!)

and woo hoo for the parrot head that is diving!! He done good!!!! He has been battling vertigo Not something you would expect a diver to be wanting to suffer from!!!

Congrats Jenny

I'm not sure what is going on why is CBC showing soccer?

ph4ever wrote:I'm not sure what is going on why is CBC showing soccer?

no idea
we are getting local news

CBC IS NOW SHOWING ON A 3 HOUR DELAY FOR THE WEST COAST DAMNIT