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Originally Posted by yorkiesmiles  Well I do think this new scoring is very confusing - so I will give him that, I'm not sure what he was referring to in the cheating. But Natasia's score on the beam absolutely made no sense though - way too low. Bela did seem to have something biting at him - you wonder what goes on behind the scene that we don't ever see or hear |
I think the cheating he was referring to was the possible underage chinese girls. I didn't know there was an age limit and when i saw the first chinese girl do floor i swear i though she was 10 years old. i know gymnasts look younger then normal girls their age, but those girls on the chinese team look really really young. Apparently the age limit is 16 and Bela is saying that those girls are not as old as they say they are.
He doesn't have a problem with the athletes themselves, but the fact that since they instilled this age limit countries have started cheating. He said they should get rid of the age limit. If the girls are good enough they should be able to compete no matter how young they are.
Bela Karolyi incensed about underage rules - Olympics - Yahoo! Sports