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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."
Uh oh, some poor sysadmin at Baidu is in need of "re-education".
Sigh. I blame the Chinese government for this.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
She's 16 in Chinese years, which is 14 is US years.
I wouldn't say stuff like that in public, dude.
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.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
"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
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
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.
In that case, would cutting their head off and counting the rings work? ;)
No, but you would get a cease and desist from the IOC if there were 5 rings.
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.