Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gymnastics was changed because of the Chinese bald faced lying about the age of their gymnasts

Remember Bela’s epic rant about one gymnast still having baby teeth?

No, the age was changed because of concerns gymnasts were too young for the types of difficulty required at the senior elite level. The Chinese skirted the age requirement - as have other countries - by falsifying their gymnasts ages. But the age requirement, ostensibly, is to protect athletes.

I'm sure that is the official reason, and that is well and good. But the falsification of ages was out of hand, too.

Anonymous wrote:Gymnastics was changed because of the Chinese bald faced lying about the age of their gymnasts

Remember Bela’s epic rant about one gymnast still having baby teeth?

No, the age was changed because of concerns gymnasts were too young for the types of difficulty required at the senior elite level. The Chinese skirted the age requirement - as have other countries - by falsifying their gymnasts ages. But the age requirement, ostensibly, is to protect athletes.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I see Ms. Gu is back tonight.

She is insufferable. (I don't even care that much about competing for a different country, but every interview I see makes me like her less.)

Jelly.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I see Ms. Gu is back tonight.

She is insufferable. (I don't even care that much about competing for a different country, but every interview I see makes me like her less.)

I just wanted to see her deported when she comes back to the US, that or have her image in China shattered when it turns out she didn’t renounce her citizenship

Anonymous wrote:I see Ms. Gu is back tonight.

She is insufferable. (I don't even care that much about competing for a different country, but every interview I see makes me like her less.)

Freestyle skiing so hard to watch - so many of these amazing female athletes being undone by the frigid temperatures, the rails, the insane jumps … enjoyed big air jumping much more …

Anonymous wrote:I see Ms. Gu is back tonight.

Along with another mention of her SAT score

I see Ms. Gu is back tonight.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I posted earlier about really missing the Olympics of my youth when the Communist countries were the best villains to root against.

Thanks Russia for bringing it back. Illegally doping your athletes and poised to invade a sovereign nation? Feeding misinformation? They licked their wounds and are back.

Russia isn’t invading a sovereign country…the Russian Military Committee is.

Thank you for this laugh omg

Anonymous wrote:I posted earlier about really missing the Olympics of my youth when the Communist countries were the best villains to root against.

Thanks Russia for bringing it back. Illegally doping your athletes and poised to invade a sovereign nation? Feeding misinformation? They licked their wounds and are back.

Russia isn’t invading a sovereign country…the Russian Military Committee is.

I posted earlier about really missing the Olympics of my youth when the Communist countries were the best villains to root against.

Thanks Russia for bringing it back. Illegally doping your athletes and poised to invade a sovereign nation? Feeding misinformation? They licked their wounds and are back.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:they obviously meant to dope her. I doubt she was fully aware of the situation. She's a child.

NYT is on record that this drug does not enhance performance.

Then it was exquisitely easy to avoid rather than breaking doping rules.

The drug absolutely increases the ability to do endurance training. This is the Russian MO and they've done it before with a very similar heart drug. There is no country in the world where this drug is approved for *any* medical purpose in a minor, so best case is that the Russians were trying to dope but chose a dumb drug?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:they obviously meant to dope her. I doubt she was fully aware of the situation. She's a child.

NYT is on record that this drug does not enhance performance.

Then it was exquisitely easy to avoid rather than breaking doping rules.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:they obviously meant to dope her. I doubt she was fully aware of the situation. She's a child.

NYT is on record that this drug does not enhance performance.

You have said this before. Post a link.



The NYT article I see says this drug could increase endurance.


https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/sports/olympics/kamila-valieva-ruling.html

Anonymous wrote:they obviously meant to dope her. I doubt she was fully aware of the situation. She's a child.

NYT is on record that this drug does not enhance performance.