Spun Gold
August 14th, 2008 at 7:27 am by BrianChina really seems to be riding high after the gymnastics competition but something about their performance seems a little bit uneven:
Olympics-China praises gold haul as sign of its rise
By Chris Buckley
BEIJING (Reuters) – A haul of Olympic gold by China and other Asian nations shows their growing strength in and out of the sports arena, and Western powers should prepare for more such challenges, Chinese official media said on Thursday.
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“The growing redirection of Olympic gold medals is because the old disparities between competitive sports levels due to historical and economic causes is being constantly overturned,” said a commentary in the overseas edition of the ruling Communist Party’s paper.
Gloat now, ChiComs. The bigger smaller they are, the harder they fall.
The difference between your competitiveness in the marketplace and in the Olympics though is that in the Olympics you’re allegedly not allowed to exploit underage child labor to do it. Gateway’s got the screenshots of the official ChiCom sites where they have whitewashed the ages of their female gymnasts and provided false documentation to the Olympic Committee so that they would be allowed to cheat.
As a result, The OIC should immediately investigate and revoke those ill-gotten medals. Time to send in the government jackboots to pluck the next generation of cheaters from their mothers’ breasts.
August 14th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Greetings:
Demographics might have something to do with it, too. With a population, that is four times as large as the United States’, to select from, one might expect a whole lot more from the People’s Republic of China.
Remember the French.
August 14th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
I swear the pic on Drudge of the chinese gymnast… she looked like she’d just graduated from 3rd grade.
August 14th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Well we can’t deny these girls are winners regardless. After all, they beat the ChiCom abortion lotto despite their vaginas.
Now that’s competition.