China stripped of 2000 Olympic bronze

[Warhawk]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/04/28/olympics.china.stripped.bronze/index.html?hpt=T2

The International Olympic Committee on Wednesday stripped China of a bronze medal in the women's team event at the 2000 Olympic Games after finding one of the team's athletes was underage.

The United States will be awarded the bronze medal instead, the IOC said in a news release.

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[uolj]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/04/28/olympics.china.stripped.bronze/index.html?hpt=T2

The International Olympic Committee on Wednesday stripped China of a bronze medal in the women's team event at the 2000 Olympic Games after finding one of the team's athletes was underage.

The United States will be awarded the bronze medal instead, the IOC said in a news release.

more....

The more interesting thing to me in reading a story about this was that they didn't find evidence of underage girls in the 2008 games, so it looks like all their medals from there will be kept.

 

[JJ22L]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/sport/04/28/olympics.china.stripped.bronze/index.html?hpt=t2

the international olympic committee on wednesday stripped china of a bronze medal in the women's team event at the 2000 olympic games after finding one of the team's athletes was underage.

The united states will be awarded the bronze medal instead, the ioc said in a news release.

More....

u.s.a.! U.s.a.! U.s.a.!

 

[Spike]

The more interesting thing to me in reading a story about this was that they didn't find evidence of underage girls in the 2008 games, so it looks like all their medals from there will be kept.

That news will come in 2016.

 

[NoBonus]

What a terrible victory for USA.... let's see... the team that beat you has been DQ'd for being little kids instead of adults... not sure that constitutes cheating... seems like the opposite of cheating...

 

[uolj]

That news will come in 2016.

That's what I was thinking, but the article I read said that they actually already did the 2008 investigation and didn't find anything.

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/news;_ylt=AvTBNJL07ZFUSTUgxYyZqvs5nYcB?slug=txgymunderagegymnast

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But the issue drew worldwide attention in 2008, when media reports and Internet records suggested some of the girls on host China's gold-medal-winning Olympic team could have been as young as 14. With the controversy threatening to overshadow the final days of those games, the IOC ordered the FIG to investigate.

Its probe cleared the Beijing gymnasts and closed the case in October 2008 after Chinese officials provided original passports, ID cards and family registers that showed all of the gymnasts were old enough to compete...