From the Digg: Hack the Olympics!

It borders on being off-topic, but nobody can claim that the Olympics isn't an international event. Both the athletic prestige for the athletes, and national recognition of hosting the Olympics in one's country, have a powerful sway in international affairs.

As such, it's ridiculous that China, after making impressive strides of development (and air-clearing) to host the games this year, has endangered it all by using underage gymnasts. They denied it. The IOC gave them the all-clear.

And now, it's in the open:

"There's been some widely publicized controversy regarding the competition age of the Chinese women's gymnastics team recently. I have an Internet connection, that means I should be able to verify the age of the gymnasts in question with primary state-issued documents and find out for myself if someone's cheating, right? Right. Let's go to work." read more | digg story

Follow these links to the relevant Baidu cached pages (scroll down, look for the yellow-highlighted characters), and keep this story going. Digg it, repost it, do something to get the message out that China can't get away with editing the truth.

Thanks to the blog Stryde Hax for pulling this out of the net.