Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud

SkeptOlympics writes "A new chapter in the ongoing controversy surrounding China's women's gymnastics team opened today, as search engine hacker stryde.hax found surviving copies of official registration documents issued by China's General Administration of Sport of China. The incriminating documents, expunged by censors from the official site and from Google's document cache, still appear in the document translation cache of Chinese search giant Baidu, here (1) and here (2), showing the age of one of China's gold medal winning gymnasts to be 14 instead of 16, the minimum age for competition presented on her government-issued passport. Now that official government documentation is available, how long will the IOC be able to keep a lid on this scandal?" I imagine the answer is "Forever."

Comments

Re-education

[thehickcoder]

Uh oh, some poor sysadmin at Baidu is in need of "re-education".

Re:Re-education

[RiotingPacifist]

no,no,no waterboarding was a terrible war crime committed by the Japanese.
The bush administration just uses advanced water based interrogation techniques

Re:Re-education

[krog]

Do you do crafts? Because that's one hell of a strawman you just put together for us.

Re:Re-education

[couchslug]

"Both are for BIG Government. (D) wants to "do it for the children", while the (R) are to protect us from evil doers."

That explains bipartisan support for "protecting the children from evildoers".

Re:Re-education

[chemisus]

But, IANC, I only know conversational Japanese and know a little (very little) about Chinese culture.

i think i would know enough about chinese culture and language (none) to know that 14 < 16.

Crap

[Greyfox]

Now I'm quite disturbed about the thoughts I was having about the Chinese gymnastics team. I wonder if I can bill my therapy to the local Chinese embassy. Or restaurant. Or maybe I'll just go eat Chinese... NO! NO! BAD!

Sigh. I blame the Chinese government for this.

Chinese years vs US years.

[El_Muerte_TDS]

She's 16 in Chinese years, which is 14 is US years.

Re:Minimum Age

[Reality Master 201]

smaller girls rotate faster

I wouldn't say stuff like that in public, dude.

Re:A big deal will get made

[houghi]

What war in Iraq?

Where the movie "Wag the dog" made a fake war to get the attention away from alleged sexual behavior of the president. "Wag the dog II" will be about the alleged sexual behavior of the president to get the attention away from war.

My, how times have changed.

Re:I imagine so as well

[jellomizer]

"People, people, please! You're forgetting what the Olympics are all about:
giving out medals of
beautiful gold,
so-so silver and s
hameful bronze. "
Simpsons

Re:A solution

[Ihlosi]

I say carbon date 'em!

Hand in your geek creds please. Carbon dating only works on dead things, and will only give you the time that has passed since the thing in question died.

Unless you're suggesting that some of the athletes were, in fact, undead.

Nobody is born on the 1st of January

[sakdoctor]

Seriously!

If anyone puts the 1st of January as their birth date, it is only because that is the most convenient fake birth date to enter on an HTML form.

01/01/ and then whatever year you need to be to apply for whatever it is you are applying for.

Re:A solution

[Stormshadow]

In that case, would cutting their head off and counting the rings work? ;)

I don't know about all that

[sjonke]

What I do know, however, is that there needs to be more coverage of women's beach volleyball signals.

Re:A solution

[Pichu0102]

No, but you would get a cease and desist from the IOC if there were 5 rings.

Re:Nothing will happen

[Smauler]

I was thinking about court.... basically I was wondering who's going to wheel out the "But officer, the Chinese government said she was 16" defense first :P.