Beijing 2008, or: who else isn't watching?

[Adrian II]

Your inability to separate politics from the rest is your own problem.

The Chinese don't make the distinction. Failing to spot that is deeply naive.

Li Ning is a famous Chinese gymnast with six olympic medals including three gold.

Li Ning is a trained rabbit, the product of a totalitarian state that used all legal and illegal means in its arsenal to raise, train and promote him. And because he plays his role of loyal supporter of the regime to the hilt, he was allowed to start his business venture and prosper. If not, he would have been in prison. Li Ning is an experiment in human engineering, he has nothing to do with sports. And if you had read the piece by Bao Tong which I linked, you would have an idea of the tremendous costs to society of such experiments.

And yes, I have seen winners smile. I saw a Chinese female gymnast smile after she won; she still had baby teeth because she is far younger than the required age of 16.

You're watching a freak show, my friend. You may prefer to remain deaf and blind to unpatalable truths, that is your right. Just don't accuse others of snobbery because they refuse to buy into it.

[discovery1]

And yes, I have seen winners smile. I saw a Chinese female gymnast smile after she won; she still had baby teeth because she is far younger than the required age of 16.

So the Chinese team really is 12 and not just looking it?! Damn.

You know, I once thought that if I were the best in my field it wouldn't matter, for me anyway, where I worked. I don't think that's true anymore.

[Adrian II]

So the Chinese team really is 12 and not just looking it?! Damn.

You know, I once thought that if I were the best in my field it wouldn't matter, for me anyway, where I worked. I don't think that's true anymore.

The Chinese Gymastics Federation listed their true ages previously on a website, but now their papers have been changed and the Olympic Committee has hushed it up. Things like that happen all the time, and all nations do it if they can. It's sickening. Most of the winners in gymnastics were never allowed to be their own age if you catch my drift. But the totalitarian states ar far worse in every respect. Just look into the info coming from former East Block states about their former athletic and gymnastics programs. Trained rabbits, my man.