Chinese cheating exposed; IOC announces investigation
HT to Michelle Malkin
Michelle reports that the Times of London is reporting that the IOC is launching an investigation of Chinese gymnast He Kexin on the heels of her gold medals, and the controversy raging that she was too young to compete:
The International Olympic Committee has ordered an investigation into mounting allegations that Chinese authorities covered up the true age of their gold-medal winning gymnastics star because she was too young to compete.
An IOC official told The Times that because of "discrepancies" that have come to light about the age of He Kexin, the host nation’s darling who won gold in both team and individual events, an official inquiry has been launched that could result in the gymnast being stripped of her medals.
The investigation was triggered as a US computer expert claimed yesterday to have uncovered Chinese government documents that he says prove she is only 14 - making her ineligible to compete in the Olympics - rather than 16, as officials in Beijing insist is her age.
Mike Walker, a computer security expert, told The Times how he tracked down two documents that he says had been removed from a Chinese government website. The documents, he said, stated that He’s birth date was January 1 1994 - making her 14 - and not January 1 1992, which is printed in her passport.
The Times also takes note of a hacker who blew the lid off this cover-up:
A determined computer expert has delved into cached pages on the Internet to unearth Chinese official documents showing a gymnast who took gold, edging Britain’s Beth Tweddle into fourth place, may indeed be underage.
Controversy over whether He Kexin, gold medallist in the uneven bars, is under the minimum age of 16 has surrounded her participation in the Beijing Olympics. The latest challenge over the age of the tiny Olympian comes from the discovery through a cyberspace maze of Chinese official documents listing her date of birth.
She certainly does not look as if she has reached the minimum competing age of 16. However China says her passport, issued in February, gives her birthday on January 1, 1992, and the International Olympic Committee has said proof from her passport is good enough. ...
The latest unofficial investigation was carried out by 'Stryde', a computer security expert for the New York-based Intrepidus Group, whose site Stryde Hax revealed a detailed forensic search for Ms He’s age.
The blogger first simply tried Google, only to find that an official listing by the Chinese sports administration that had given her age could no longer be accessed. Next he tried the Google cache, only to find that Ms He’s name had been removed.
So then he tried the cache of Chinese search engine Baidu. There, he found that Baidu lists two spreadsheets in Ms He's name, both giving her date of birth as January 1, 1994 – making her 14 years and 220 days old and too young to compete at these Olympics.
The lists were compiled by the General Administration of Sport of China.
Even before anyone arrived in Beijing, American media investigations had accused China of fielding three athletes below the 16-year-old minimum age threshold. Bela Karolyi, the former US head coach, then reheated the issue by claiming that China “are using half-people” and that their flouting of the regulations was so obvious that “these people think we are stupid”.
Here is the post Stryde posted on his site that goes through his search, and what he dug up. It's pretty damn compelling. IF the IOC is serious about this investigation, and they reach the same conclusion that so many others have speculated, and that Stryde has proven, then He Kexin will be stripped of her gold medals, and the order of finish will be moved up.
It was a mistake for the IOC to award the Chinese the Olympics, and not just because they're a communist nation that has no regard for human rights. We knew they were going to cheat. They had a couple athletes disqualified from the games when they tested positive for steroids. The Chinese tried to do the same thing that Hitler did in the Berlin games. The Olympics were literally a propaganda tool for them to exhibit their supposed "superiority" to the world.
They failed, and we hope the IOC holds them accountable for their cheating ways.
Publius II
Michelle reports that the Times of London is reporting that the IOC is launching an investigation of Chinese gymnast He Kexin on the heels of her gold medals, and the controversy raging that she was too young to compete:
The International Olympic Committee has ordered an investigation into mounting allegations that Chinese authorities covered up the true age of their gold-medal winning gymnastics star because she was too young to compete.
An IOC official told The Times that because of "discrepancies" that have come to light about the age of He Kexin, the host nation’s darling who won gold in both team and individual events, an official inquiry has been launched that could result in the gymnast being stripped of her medals.
The investigation was triggered as a US computer expert claimed yesterday to have uncovered Chinese government documents that he says prove she is only 14 - making her ineligible to compete in the Olympics - rather than 16, as officials in Beijing insist is her age.
Mike Walker, a computer security expert, told The Times how he tracked down two documents that he says had been removed from a Chinese government website. The documents, he said, stated that He’s birth date was January 1 1994 - making her 14 - and not January 1 1992, which is printed in her passport.
The Times also takes note of a hacker who blew the lid off this cover-up:
A determined computer expert has delved into cached pages on the Internet to unearth Chinese official documents showing a gymnast who took gold, edging Britain’s Beth Tweddle into fourth place, may indeed be underage.
Controversy over whether He Kexin, gold medallist in the uneven bars, is under the minimum age of 16 has surrounded her participation in the Beijing Olympics. The latest challenge over the age of the tiny Olympian comes from the discovery through a cyberspace maze of Chinese official documents listing her date of birth.
She certainly does not look as if she has reached the minimum competing age of 16. However China says her passport, issued in February, gives her birthday on January 1, 1992, and the International Olympic Committee has said proof from her passport is good enough. ...
The latest unofficial investigation was carried out by 'Stryde', a computer security expert for the New York-based Intrepidus Group, whose site Stryde Hax revealed a detailed forensic search for Ms He’s age.
The blogger first simply tried Google, only to find that an official listing by the Chinese sports administration that had given her age could no longer be accessed. Next he tried the Google cache, only to find that Ms He’s name had been removed.
So then he tried the cache of Chinese search engine Baidu. There, he found that Baidu lists two spreadsheets in Ms He's name, both giving her date of birth as January 1, 1994 – making her 14 years and 220 days old and too young to compete at these Olympics.
The lists were compiled by the General Administration of Sport of China.
Even before anyone arrived in Beijing, American media investigations had accused China of fielding three athletes below the 16-year-old minimum age threshold. Bela Karolyi, the former US head coach, then reheated the issue by claiming that China “are using half-people” and that their flouting of the regulations was so obvious that “these people think we are stupid”.
Here is the post Stryde posted on his site that goes through his search, and what he dug up. It's pretty damn compelling. IF the IOC is serious about this investigation, and they reach the same conclusion that so many others have speculated, and that Stryde has proven, then He Kexin will be stripped of her gold medals, and the order of finish will be moved up.
It was a mistake for the IOC to award the Chinese the Olympics, and not just because they're a communist nation that has no regard for human rights. We knew they were going to cheat. They had a couple athletes disqualified from the games when they tested positive for steroids. The Chinese tried to do the same thing that Hitler did in the Berlin games. The Olympics were literally a propaganda tool for them to exhibit their supposed "superiority" to the world.
They failed, and we hope the IOC holds them accountable for their cheating ways.
Publius II
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