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Originally Posted by some blog i found
China is not the first team to be in this position. In 1991, a North Korean gymnast, Kim Gwang Suk, showed up at the world championships with two missing front teeth, raising questions about her age. She was 4 feet 4 inches and about 62 pounds, and she claimed to be 16. At one point, the North Korean Gymnastics Federation listed her at 15 for three straight years; it was later barred from the 1993 world championships for falsifying ages.
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this must be more rampant than we think it is.
here's a blurb about one of the chinese gymnasts, named He:
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According to some official records, He - China's uneven bars specialist - was listed as 14 this year. Now, however, she is listed as 16. At the post-event news conference, a reporter asked her how she had celebrated her 15th birthday. After a long pause, He answered that it had been "an ordinary day" spent with teammates.
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