The Waikato Times in New Zealand:
… The 24-year-old was part of China’s Sydney 2000 team which had their bronze medals stripped about five months ago because Dong falsified her age and was found to be too young to compete.
A long-running International Gymnastics Federation investigation took place after she registered a different birthdate for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, where she worked as a national technical official.
But that is now in the past for Dong, and she and her husband Li Te, 26, are now focused on starting afresh. …
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Dong is coaching at two clubs now, hoping to stay in New Zealand after she and her husband finish their schooling.
I wonder how she feels about taking the blame for the medal scandal, while Mrs. Yang Wei, Yang Yun, was found innocent.
Of course I blame neither of these two underage kids in Sydney. The adult leadership in China was never directly made to account.
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I blame the kids too. Of course I’m a silly Anglo Saxon who beleives in telling the truth. I’m sure some relativistic marxist, persecuted Han perspective would see things different.
I don’t blame kids. They just do what adults tell them. They may not have even known about the age limit. The kids did not select themselves for the team.
By the way, Marx would not have been happy with the way communism was done in Russia and China.
I saw this yesterday too. I don’t blame the kids at all, as Kary said they just do what adults tell them. Wonder if any of the kids in the gyms she coaches know about the age scandal and what they think of it!
Right. I should use the word “totalitarianism”, much more accurate.
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