on Aug 16th, 2008China Olympics Gymnasts are under age or just small?
Because China and the United States competed on the same events each rotation, it was easy to notice differences in their body types. The Chinese gymnasts lack curves, have an average height of 4 feet 9 inches and weigh an average of 77 pounds. Deng is the smallest, at 4-6 and 68 pounds. The women on the United States team, generally more muscular and shapely than the Chinese, are an average of 3 ½ inches taller and 30 pounds heavier.
Taken from The Times
Seriously?
I’m not sure if these girls are above 16 years old…. but we’re Asians! We’re small, thin, petite, even though I’m not. We’re generally of a smaller built! The Chinese girls are about 1.5m and 35kgs, which is actually not very rare for Asian women. The Americans are about 1.58m and 43kgs, which is roughly the average weight of my female friends. Heck, I know guys as thin as that. To be a gymnast, you’ve got to be small and agile, and is it surprising that a small Asian is smaller than a small American?
Look, I wear Large or X-Large sized clothes in Asian countries, but I’m a Medium or sometimes even a Small when I shop in countries with a dominant population of Caucasians. When I was a teenager, I had a secret desire to go for boob job to make them smaller just so I can fit into those pretty small little clothes from Far East Plaza. Whatever. Asians in general are less curvy than westerners, and they biologically smaller in size la.
China’s coach gave a very good rebuttal…
China’s coach, Lu Shanzhen, bristled when the age issue arose again on the day his gymnasts had upset the Americans, the reigning world champions. He would not explain Deng’s missing tooth.
“It’s unfair that people keep saying the Chinese are too young to compete,” Lu said in Mandarin, on his way out of the National Indoor Stadium. “If they think they can tell someone’s age just by looking at them, well, if you look at the foreign athletes, they have so much more muscles than the Chinese. They are so strong. Do you then say that they are doping?”
These people should stop speculating and just go find evidence of the underage China gymnasts. Although I won’t be surprised if they find that they are really underage, just like how we aren’t surprise many of the top athletes takes drug or cheat in whatever way possible.
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