Evidence continues to grow that at least one and possibly more of China's female gymnasts were underage. The evidence is coming in strongest against He Kexin. First, a blogger tracked down online birth records listing her birthdate as January 1, 1994. Actually, those records had been erased, but he was able to obtain them through pulling up online caches. Furthermore, multiple news articles in the Communist Party press listed her age last year as 13 (which would match the online birth records). He won two gold medals in the current Olympics, one as a member of the Chinese team and another in the uneven bars, beating out Nastia Liukin in a tiebreaker after both finished evenly in points.
UPDATE Aug. 22, 2008: The International Olympic Committee has now belatedly announced they will be launching an official probe into He Kexin's age.
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