Dong Fangxiao moving on after losing Olympic medal

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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