Olympic Balls: Phelps Can’t Swim And Chinese Gymnast He Is A She
NO small shock to learn that Michael Phelps, the “greatest ever Olympia” (all papers), can’t swim.
With his big ears and massive snaggle tooth, Phelps was too untelegenic for Beijing and was replaced by one Maurice Maurice, a French Canadian life guard and part-time catalogue model.
Now after that, the non-singing girl who proved that not ALL Chinese people look the same, and the non-firing fireworks, we find out more Olympic shock news, chiefly that teenaged He is a teenged she.
How old is He? The Associated Press notes:
Just nine months before the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese government’s news agency, Xinhua, reported that gymnast He Kexin was 13.
It turns out that this not only makes He a truly remarkable athlete, who can beat the best the rest of the world has to offer at just 13 years of age, but also make He illegile for combat.
Also He is a she.
In its report Nov. 3, Xinhua identified He as one of “10 big new stars” who made a splash at China’s Cities Games. It gave her age as 13 and reported that she beat Yang Yilin on the uneven bars at those games. In the final, “this little girl” pulled off a difficult release move on the bars known as the Li Na, named for another Chinese gymnast, Xinhua said in the report, which appeared on one of its Web sites, http://www.hb.xinhuanet.com
China wins the gymnastics, beating the USA team into second place, or Team USA as it its wont. And the US proves that having hissy fits, poking fun and crying unfair are not the preserve of pubescent brats.
Martha Karolyi, the U.S. national team coordinator, comments:
“One of the girls has a missing tooth,” – “suggesting that the gymnast was so young that she lost a baby tooth and had yet to have a permanent one emerge.”
The grin of Deng Linlin, a Chinese gymnast who is listed as 16, indeed revealed a wide gap. To be eligible for the Olympics, gymnasts must turn 16 this year. “I have no proof, so I can’t make an affirmation,” Karolyi said.
No but she can whisper loudly and make snide comments , and look like a bad loser. And that I soooo mqture….
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August 15th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
M&A… never anything less than chilled me, in fact I’m so laid back I might just fall over. Not a lot bothers me…… but sadly alcohol is off the menu nowadays. Boo Hoo.
August 15th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
aquatics in dirty waters…yeah
August 15th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Okay.. Pedantic DD!
But Track and Field is actually the correct name for the athletics that don’t do it for me.
same as swimming and diving etc is called Aquatics.
M and A
have a glass of wine and chill…..
August 15th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
BOYCOT the whole disgraceful “event”
August 15th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
coolandcalm Says:
August 15th, 2008 at 8:07 am
End of the Olympics for me now. Field and track don’t do it for me.
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“Field and Track” probably don’t do it for you because it’s actually “Track and Field”, otherwise known in civilized countries as Athletics.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
coolandcalm Says:
August 15th, 2008 at 8:07 am
and the firework footprints lighting up the Beijing sky were….. computer trickery.
But then are we surprsied?
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In my own humle opinion, I think anyone watching the Olympic Extravaganza last Friday night at some point thought “Can all of this really be going on at the same time?” but it still did not lessen the dazzle.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Coolandcalm
We are lucky to have a school that includes swimming in the curriculum, otherwise many kids wouldn’t even learn how to swim.
Perhaps I should add free swimming lessons to my school bus campaign
I used to do Back Crawl oonly made the county once though - started cross country running instead.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Noseycow… agree absolutely. None of our athletes recieve enough funding, if any. I had this discussion with Mr C&C only yesterday.
I read about one set of rowers who had their funding reduced at the same time a couple of million was allocated for our Olympic officials to visit Beijing and assess for 2012.
I’m sure I’ll watch more of the Games with one eye but its the swimming and diving that I really love because I used to be a swimmer/diver at county level many moons ago. Made the nationals once then discovered cigarettes.
Now its an occasional float across a pool if I’m on holiday and its bath water hot. Must do something about that! (Our swimmers get bugger all funding as well!)
August 15th, 2008 at 11:37 am
cool
i confess to being a great olympic fan and a supporter of them being in the UK next time. I find myself watching things that never I never usually bother with and getting excited when one of ‘ours’ beats their personal best.
I listened to an interview a few weeks ago - Philippa Roles who is competing for us in the Discus. She is a train driver who works her training around her full time job, and was genuinely pleased when her employers let her have paid time off to compete in the olympics. They even allowed her to take a few days holiday prior to travelling to China.
I was so impressed by her (never heard of her before). She doesn’t complain that she gets up at 3am to work and then gets to train late afternoon. She just loves her sport. I can’t say for sure but it doesn’t look like she’s been sponsored or even supported in the way that some of our ‘finer’ (for want of a better word) athletes have.
People like her deserve the support of the whole nation - so please switch on when she is competing, IMO she is representative of what the olympics is about
August 15th, 2008 at 8:07 am
and the firework footprints lighting up the Beijing sky were….. computer trickery.
But then are we surprsied?
because girls are mostly unwanted in China they are often not registered so (allegedly) a teeny 13 year old who has been trained to near-death can hypothetically ( :LOL: ) be put in the gymnastics with fake documents and there is no way of proving otherwise.
But Phelps is real. I’ve watched all the swimming and diving that they deigned to show, even getting up in the middle of the night on a couple of occasions. I love it.
Phelps is fantasitic but so is Rebecca Adlington of GB.
End of the Olympics for me now. Field and track don’t do it for me.
August 15th, 2008 at 8:04 am
oh dear. This isn’t the first time (it happened in the 40 or 50s I believe) but rare. How did they not know? Anyway, a girl who was supposed to be singing at the opening ceremony wasn’t the one - it was another girl. The whole thing came out though and proves that east (in some countries) are devious little shits TOWARDS US AND THEIR OWN PEOPLE.
August 15th, 2008 at 6:10 am
So let me get this straight.. Hu is a he, but He is a she, and the ceremony was a fake.