Why do you think IOC is not taking any necessary steps to settle the issue regarding the suspect under-age Chinese Gymnast? They are time and again saying that they have verified the age mentioned in their passport. But in this case the accuracy of passport itself has been questioned. So, why don't IOC try to settle the issue using scientific age verification methods and settle the issue once and for all?? I remember not very long ago ICC stripping Nepal's place in Final  from under 17 International Cricket held in Nepal after it found 13 of its 15 players over the age of 17 in the tooth age verification technique they used. If stupid body such as ICC can do such tests and punish a country for its wrong doing...why a strong body such as IOC hesitant in taking such steps to ensure justice to other players and the rule.

 

According to law of Biology (actually there is no such law but just common sense), the younger the person less stable they are.  If they are more stable why don't you put toddler in the gymnastic.

Secondly , i believe, the hand, leg everything should be strong enough to hold the bar, grip it. Age 14 is not the one where gymnast gets an undue advantage.

Whatever, may be the age that should never be the criteria for allowing or disallowing any players. Its like saying tall guys are not allowed in Basketball because it gives them the advantage. If IOC is concerned about the injury that may be different reason.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/08/23/church.argentina.dog.cnn

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Clearly, these baseless accusations are nothing more than malicious lies propagated by the terrorist Dalai Clique, poisioned American children's and pets' class-action lawyer thugs, and tiger penis preservation extremists.  Oh, yeah, and also the disgruntled parents of the too-ugly-to-show-during-the-Open-Ceremony child singer of the PRC national anthem.  In other face-saving related news, Chinese Olympic officials are filing a protest with the IOC, asking them to strip American women's beach volleyball gold medalists Misty May-Treanor and Kerry Walsh of their medals.  They claim that Walsh intentionally spiked the ball directly into the face of her Chinese opponent in a malicious and deliberate attempt to make her opponent lose face.  Developing...

Breaking: IOC officials have cleared China's girl's gymnastics team of any wrongdoing, ruling that it is perfectly legal for China to field a team entirely made up of eight-week-olds, eight-month-olds, and eight-year-olds because, if the world has learned anything from these Beijing games, it is that eight is a very auspicious and important number in Chinese culture.  They added, however, that Most Evilest Olympian Evah Michael Phelps winning eight gold medals is a hollow USA victory and merely two zeroes linked together.