Exactly what were you expecting?

[moonwise]

Chinese news service reported that gold medal gymnast was 13

There's a good deal of huffiness going on in the American sports press asking why the IOC isn't doing anything about this when the rule is that gymnasts must be 16 or older. Well, the Soviets had underage gymnasts back in the old days, and so did the Romanians, and so did the North Koreans, so why would anyone expect the IOC to suddenly come to life?

Comments

[caoin.livejournal.com]

I thought there was a guy on the UK diving team who was 14...or do these rules only apply to gymnastics? Or maybe it was just our pathetic commentators. Really I can barely be bothered as the channel that has the (almost) exclusive Lympdics contract here is doing a really bad job of it.