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NY TimesThe International Olympic Committee on Wednesday stripped the Chinese women’s gymnastics team of a bronze medal it won at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The move came two months after one of China’s athletes, Dong Fangxiao, was found to be under-age at those Summer Games.
The I.O.C. will award the bronze medal to the United States , which had finished fourth in the team event and had left the 2000 Olympics empty-handed. The team members were Amy Chow, Jamie Dantzscher, Dominique Dawes, Kristen Maloney, Elise Ray and Tasha Schwikert.
“I could have never imagined getting another Olympic medal at 33 years old, so it’s great to hear the news and that justice prevailed,” said Dawes, who will now have one gold and three bronze Olympic medals, from the 1992, 1996 and 2000 Games. “I’m thrilled that my teammates and I, 10 years later, will finally be able to enjoy the medal we deserved.”
The issue of age falsification has been a lingering problem in gymnastics and was a major issue at the 2008 Beijing Games, where questions arose about the age of at least two of China’s female gymnasts. Internet sports registries and other sources showed that those gymnasts were under-age. To compete at the Games, gymnasts must be at least 16 in an Olympic year.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/sports/olympics/29gymnast.html?hp
These grade school girls couldn't have been the age they claimed.
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