Last week I brought you 20 reason to watch and not watch the Olympics.
Number 20 was, "It's sad and disheartening to watch prepubescent girls dressed up like women, as part of a state sponsored program by the Chinese to blatantly cheat and break the rules."
Well thanks to the magic of the Internet a computer expert has discovered online evidence that the gymnast in question, He Hexin, is really only 14-years-old.
The IOC has now launched a formal probe. You can read all about it HERE.
This may yet turn out to be the saddest story out of Beijing. The real loser in this evolving drama could be a very talented 14-year-old girl who just did her best for her country.
It was not all that long ago that East Germany sacrificed its talented young female swimmers lives by secretly over-dosing them with massive amounts of male steroids. They were test rats. It is now well documented that many young swimmers either blew up due to injury from over training, developed male characteristics to such an extent that they needed a sex change, or died in the pool from mysterious health complications.
Now the Chinese are sacrificing their best and most talented on the podium of the Olympics for nationalistic pride and glory. That's always been the problem with communism. The state has no soul and the men pulling the strings behind the red curtain don't care that a few lives get crushed now and then.