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(Left to right) Silver winner Nastia Liukin of the United States, gold
medal winner He Kexin of China and bronze medal winner Yang Yilin of
China stand on the podium during the medal ceremony for the women's
uneven bars final.
Photo: Getty Images
IOC calls for investigation into gymnast's ageStephen Hutcheon | August
22, 2008 - 11:37AM
The IOC has asked the International Gymnastics Federation to investigate
allegations that China's dual gold medal winning gymnast He Kexin is
underaged.
New discrepancies about her age emerged yesterday after a US blogger and
security consultant, identified as Mike Walker, dug up cached copies of
official Excel spreadsheets found on the internet which showed He Kexin
's birthday as January 1, 1994.
That would make her just 14-years-old and ineligible to compete in the
Olympics where gymnasts are required to be turn 16 in the year in which
the Games take place.
Rules barring underaged competitors were put into place to avoid
exploiting younger gymnasts who are more supple and therefore better
equipped to perform some of the routines.
The Times of London quotes IOC spokeswoman Giselle Davies as saying that
the International Gymnastics Federation, which goes by its French
acronym of FIG, has been instructed to look into the allegations.
"More information has come to light that did point to discrepancies,"
The Times quoted Ms Davies as saying.
"We have asked the gymnastics federation to look into it further with
the national Chinese federation. If there is a question mark, and we
have a concern - which we do - we ask the governing body of any sport to
look into ... as to why there is a discrepancy."
The 1.42m (4'8") tall gymnast was part of the Chinese women's team which
won gold. She then took an individual gold medal in the apparatus
competition. He Kexin and several of her teammates have been dogged by
persistent rumours about their age since the start of the Games.
Walker, who blogs under the pseudonym "Stryde Hax ", identified himself
as a consultant with the US-based internet security firm Intrepidus
Group.
After the initial allegations surfaced, he trawled through the search
results on Google, Google China and the Chinese search engine Baidu,
uncovering more examples of cached official Excel spreadsheet showing He
Kexin birthday as January 1, 1994.
Chinese officials say He Kexin's passport and birth certificate list her
as being born on January 1, 1992 - which would make her 16-years-old.
When asked about her age recently, He Kexin was quoted as saying: "My
real age is 16, I don't care about what other people say, it's none of
my business."
Asked about the age controversy earlier this month, International
Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge said it was the responsibility
of the individual sport federations to check the age of athletes.
Stryde Hax's discoveries support earlier reports regarding He Kexin's
age. Earlier, several bloggers found links to news stories and photo
captions - in both English and Chinese published last year and earlier
this year - which refer to He Kexin as being aged 13. One cached version
of a story published in May this year refers to her as being aged 14.
Many of the original links and some of the cached results have since
been removed.
He Kexin was at the centre of another controversy earlier this week when
she edged out an American competitor for the gold medal in the women's
apparatus after a panel of judges - including Australia's Helen
Colagiuri - invoked a complicated tie-break formula used for the first
time to decide an Olympic competition.
Allegations have been made that two other Chinese gymnasts, Jiang Yuyuan
and Yang Yilin, have also had their ages doctored in order to allow them
to compete.
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stand on the podium during the medal ceremony for the women's uneven
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| Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:56 pm |
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On Aug 21, 11:56 pm, jerry warner <jwar... at (no spam) mchsi.com> wrote:
Quote: Chinese officials say He Kexin's passport and birth certificate list her
as being born on January 1, 1992 - which would make her 16-years-old.
When asked about her age recently, He Kexin was quoted as saying: "My
real age is 16, I don't care about what other people say, it's none of
my business."
Dear Kexin, I don't care if it's none of YOUR business, but it is some
of OUR business. |
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