You neglected the point he made (and I made) about the difference between proving doping, for which there is a blood test, and proving a forgery on a government document.
This sounds an awful lot like “I just started paying attention to this.”
Here’s a story on the subject from Canada.
Here’s one from China Daily. And it says He Kexin is 14.
Yes, Karolyi is a biased party. We get it. If he were the source of the accusation, that’d be really important, but he isn’t.
You said it. I was watching Spaced on DVD and there was a montage with Getting to Know You from The King and I and Marni Nixon got a screen credit for it, both in the end credits and in the subtitles. That’s more than Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation ever gave her.
First, I assume she was of legal age in that competition. Second, not everyone competing was going to make the Olympic team. Even despots nap sometimes. Third, you still haven’t explained the discrepancy between the published birth year back then and that on her passport. She’s a little young to be coy about her age, isn’t she? Unless she’s the Chinese equivalent of Jack Benny.
There is a bit of a difference between an individual competitor cheating and cheating officially sponsored. Especially when it is the host country, and especially when the host country is so sensitive to the smallest perceive slight. Not the furor about the guys coming off the plane with masks. “How dare you cough cough say our air is polluted!”
Oddly enough no one is making a stink about the men gymnasts, who are clearly of age and clearly legitimate. They won fair and square, and more power to them. But it is one thing to tell someone not to be a sore loser, and another to say it when a few aces are falling out of your sleeve.
By the way, the NY Times first reported on the age issue several weeks ago, before the games started. So this did not just pop up after the medals were handed out. It’s not surprising that the topic is getting more attention now that the event has happened and more people saw the girls themselves, though.
Since nobody can leave actual footprints in the sky, they all are fake.
The fireworks weren’t fake, the helicopter shot was fake.
Real footprint fireworks did get let off as shown in Beijing, so the people outside the stadium saw the real thing. Just the cool shot of watching them approach the ceremony, as seen from above, was impossible to orchestrate so they artificially re-created it.