Yesterday, the first paragraph of the Los Angeles Times headline reads: The International Olympics Committee(IOC) asked the International Gymnastics Federation (IGF) to reexamine whether gold-medal-winning gymnasts He Kexin and two of her teammates were too young to compete in the Beijing Games.
Certainly, this controversy will not just die without all stones unturned. I commend IOC for trying to protect the integrity of the Olympics by acting to thoroughly investigate the issue.
I would like to see IGF to go beyond passport and birth certificates. Why? I tell you why. Passport and birth certificate can be fabricated easily, especially if the nation would like to showcase its power for all the world to see. IGF must muster the help of other professionals, like auxologists and pedagogues, to check possibly on the development of jawbone and the academic knowledge of these gymnasts, respectively. Development of jawbone helps check the growth of permanent teeth, as education level, more or less, to the age of an individual.
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