Mar 11, 2009 · China's sports ministry has x-ray tested 15,000 youth athletes and found that a fifth are lying about their age: The athletes tested were the ...
Mar 11, 2009 · A Chinese sports ministry has found a fifth of 15,000 youth athletes have been misrepresenting their ages. The ministry in Guangdong province ...
Mar 13, 2009 · X-ray bone analysis of 15000 young Chinese athletes shows about 20 percent have lied about their ages, provincial sports authorities say...
Sep 14, 2008 · Despite assurances by Chinese officials that all three are 16, the minimum age of eligibility for Olympic competition, newly discovered ...
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Feb 7, 2024 · One of the most notable cases involves Chinese gymnast Dong Fangxiao, who was found to have misrepresented her age at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Feb 26, 2010 · An International Gymastics Federation (FIG) probe has found Dong Fangxiao was younger than the minimum age requirement of 16 during the 2000 ...
Dec 9, 2008 · Chinese crackdown finds 36 players gave false ages ... BEIJING -- A crackdown on "age shaving" has found 36 players in China's professional ...
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Jun 7, 2022 · You can't really lie about their age when they are well documented by the age of like 6 or 7. I don't think even the current relative lack ...
Jul 28, 2008 · Since 1997, international gymnastics rules have required that a gymnast must turn 16 during an Olympic year to be eligible for the Games.
Feb 26, 2010 · The gymnastics federation said that Dong Fangxiao was actually 14 during the 2000 Olympics, two years younger than the minimum.