More Accusations of Chinese Cheating

Those Saturday suggestions that secret Chinese swimmers avoided drug tests over the past year turned out to be for naught: the Chinese women's relay team in specific question finished fourth and out of the medals in Sunday morning's final. But the accusations have not ended.

Via Deadspin, infamous U.S. gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi not only thinks China is using girls under the minimum age (16) to win the gold, he asserts the cheating is so blatant as to be insulting.

"They are using half-people," Karolyi said. "One of the biggest frustrations is, what arrogance. These people think we are stupid.

"We are in the business of gymnastics and we know what a kid of 14 or 15 or 16 looks like. You don't have to be a gymnastics coach to know what they look like at 16."

Chris Hansen has proven time and again you really don't have to be a gymnastics coach to know what they look like at 16. Isn't there any easy solution, though? Can't you just cut off their ankle and count the rings? Or at least remove the arbitrary age limits?

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