# Chinese female Gymnast **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 11, 2008, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinese-female-gymnast/459546 "2008-08-11T00:12:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinese-female-gymnast/459546/161 "2008-08-22T00:25:04Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] [The IOC has launched an investigation.](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/article4583174.ece) This could be huge. What with the Chinese gov’t apparently providing a fraudulent passport as proof of her age…some very big heads could roll. [/QUOTE] More likely, some very little heads – the athletes’. The Chinese will deny and deny, and if they can no longer do that, they will simply blame the athelete, or the parents, for providing false documents. ---
**Author:** ![Promethea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Promethea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Promethea)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinese-female-gymnast/459546/162 "2008-08-22T07:18:06Z")
[QUOTE=Bill Door] Total hijack, but am I the only one who whenever he sees the thread hovering up there like it has for the past week or so sings the thread title to the tune of the Planet Express created version of _Single Female Lawyer_ from the _When Aliens Attack_ episode? [/QUOTE] Well, now I’M doing it too, so there’s at least two of us. ---
**Author:** ![Martiju](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@Martiju](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martiju)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinese-female-gymnast/459546/163 "2008-08-22T13:29:48Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] [The IOC has launched an investigation.](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/article4583174.ece) This could be huge. What with the Chinese gov’t apparently providing a fraudulent passport as proof of her age…some very big heads could roll. [/QUOTE] Just to add, [The Telegraph’s story](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/2599227/Chinese-Olympic-gymnast-He-Kexin-facing-age-inquiry.html) also includes the cached evidence. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinese-female-gymnast/459546/164 "2008-08-22T13:43:48Z")
[Heads won’t roll](http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/gymnastics/story/2008/08/21/olympics-china-gymnasts-age.html) It seems to be over. Nobody _actually_ expected the IOC to take action against China did they? ---
**Author:** ![Windwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5e9695/32.png) [@Windwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Windwalker)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinese-female-gymnast/459546/165 "2008-08-22T13:56:24Z")
[Here](http://strydehax.blogspot.com/2008/08/hack-olympics.html) 's a link of a guy who found and documented He Kexin’s birthdate to be 1-1-1994 in China’s own database, before it was mysteriously taken down. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinese-female-gymnast/459546/166 "2008-08-22T15:02:20Z")
It took 8 years for the US track gold to be taken away because the truth took a while to come out. I expect the same from this. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2008, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinese-female-gymnast/459546/167 "2008-08-24T06:48:07Z")
Well, maybe the IOC wanted to get the hell out of China before they got put into jail with the 78 year old protesters. But I’m not betting on justice. If one person cheats, it is awful, if a government does it, no problem. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinese-female-gymnast/459546.md?page=8)