Comments on: Chinese gymnasts may YET be underage

By: 15yr-old Olympian … too young? — Gymnastics Coaching.com

15yr-old Olympian … too young? — Gymnastics Coaching.com — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:26:08 +0000

[...] We look like idiots in the international sporting community for putting that age rule in place. Perhaps Grandi will realize his mistake Feb. 26th. [...]

By: interview with Bruno Grandi — Gymnastics Coaching.com

interview with Bruno Grandi — Gymnastics Coaching.com — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:42:24 +0000

[...] That bomb will drop February 26, 2010. [...]

By: Gymnastics Year in Review — Gymnastics Coaching.com

Gymnastics Year in Review — Gymnastics Coaching.com — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:30:18 +0000

[...] biggest scandal of 2010? That’s easy. China will be found guilty of competing 2 gymnasts who were underage at the 2000 [...]

By: Charlie Tamayo – Stalder Tkachev Front — Gymnastics Coaching.com

Charlie Tamayo – Stalder Tkachev Front — Gymnastics Coaching.com — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:57:06 +0000

[...] what I’d like to see happen if China is found guilty of deliberately falsifying documents for their girls at the 2000 Olympics (ruling Feb. 26, 2010). The athletes should keep the medals, the national federation punished. [...]

By: Jim from Seattle

Jim from Seattle — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:15:24 +0000

wrist slap, my friend…..

of course, we’ll see

By: coach Rick

coach Rick — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:16:55 +0000

Dunno, Jim.

I have a feeling THIS time that China will be found GUILTY.

IOC will decide on the medals. But FIG will impose some sort of sanction on the Olympic Champions. Likely it will fall short of banning them from London, however.

Sooner or later information will come out proving He Kexin was underage too. And a repeat will be inevitable. Perhaps it will be in her tell all memoir.

By: Jim from Seattle

Jim from Seattle — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:34:23 +0000

i can’t tell if your “congratulations” is sarcastic or not

1. would love to see the actual document that suggests that FIG is the (my words) “arbiter of sanctions”….i’m confident that there is NO WAY that however guilty, that FIG can alter OG results

2. i’m confident that “we all know” that this is some silly/superfluous “dog and pony show” that will result in everyone agreeing that

“i’m shocked, shocked, that there is gambling going on in this place”

but doesn’t, in the long run, make a damned bit of difference…..

3. Rick, you and i are in this for the long run….bet you $50 (US/Canadian, doens’t matter) that in 2018, there will be a rerun of this whole lame thing and that FIG will suggest that the (underage) gymnasts of Beijing (2008) was an unfortunate occurance which due to “controls we’v e established won’t happen again…”

4. the biggest joke of all this, is that FIG is happy (not necessarily eager) to hammer gymnasts from, say, Vietnam, but there is no way in hell that they’ll come down hard on the “biggies”………..China, USA, Russia, et.al…….not saying any of the “biggies” have done anything against the rules (:->), but double-standard?

duh

5. no doubt there are innocents among us who think that this whole thing is going to play out fairly……….ask yourselves, where the hell was the FIG in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009…..

6. Bruno Grandi comes up for re-election (again) in 31 months…….”just sayin”