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#1 2008-08-20 3:33 pm
- D'Eyncourt
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Hacking to find the truth about a Chinese gymnast
Source.
Basically this guy used the caching feature in the Baidu search engine to track down an official Chinese record which show that He Kexin--a member of the Chinese gymnatics team and recently gold medalist in the uneven bars--is actually 14 years old. Just a reminder: the rules for the Olympics state that competitors in gymnastics must be at least 16 years old.
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#2 2008-08-20 3:37 pm
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Re: Hacking to find the truth about a Chinese gymnast
Haven't the Chinese regularly cheated in this manner, even prior to this Olympics?
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#3 2008-08-20 3:42 pm
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Re: Hacking to find the truth about a Chinese gymnast
bratboy wrote:
Haven't the Chinese regularly cheated in this manner, even prior to this Olympics?
Perhaps. This might become this era's version of East German women (or, rather, "women").
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#4 2008-08-20 3:45 pm
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Re: Hacking to find the truth about a Chinese gymnast
Another (sadly) amusing story is the Chinese "free speech zones" which were a condition of them getting the games. The idea is, people would be able to apply for permits to protest in a specific spot (a park).
But anyone who's applied has been arrested or has just plain vanished.
smurfing IOC. They've ruined the Olympics for me.
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#5 2008-08-20 5:19 pm
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I, for one, look forward to the 2014 Winter Games in Russia !
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#6 2008-08-20 6:56 pm
Re: Hacking to find the truth about a Chinese gymnast
D'Eyncourt wrote:
Source.
Basically this guy used the caching feature in the Baidu search engine to track down an official Chinese record which show that He Kexin--a member of the Chinese gymnatics team and recently gold medalist in the uneven bars--is actually 14 years old. Just a reminder: the rules for the Olympics state that competitors in gymnastics must be at least 16 years old.
A ridiculous rule - most top female gymnasts are past their peak at 16.
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#7 2008-08-20 8:56 pm
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What? Corruption at the Olympics? I can't believe that you'd like like that on the internets.
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#8 2008-08-20 9:28 pm
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Re: Hacking to find the truth about a Chinese gymnast
Hank Rearden wrote:
What? Corruption at the Olympics? I can't believe that you'd like like that on the internets.
Compared to the days when the Soviet women's teams had 5 o'clock shadow it seems pretty tame anymore.
Minithink isn't a "to the death" cage match.
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#9 2008-08-20 11:18 pm
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They've just developed better drugs that don't have stubbly side effects.
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#11 2008-08-20 11:58 pm
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Stnairoids
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#12 2008-08-20 11:59 pm
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Either that or they use nair
nair + chlorinated pool = 
He can even take his son with him into the shower, where the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis
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#13 2008-08-21 12:00 am
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Personal experience?
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#14 2008-08-21 12:13 am
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Just an assumption.
He can even take his son with him into the shower, where the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis
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#15 2008-08-21 12:14 am
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Re: Hacking to find the truth about a Chinese gymnast
This board is going to be banned in Beijing.
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#16 2008-08-21 12:17 am
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I'm sure it already has been. If not...
HEY YOU LOUSY COMMUNIST DICTATORS, LEAVE YOUR PEOPLE ALONE!
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#17 2008-08-21 1:37 am
Re: Hacking to find the truth about a Chinese gymnast
The age limit is still a stupid rule.
It's like soccer here in the US - a lot of soccer leagues will not allow kids to use their head to hit the ball until they are 15 - and then we wonder why our national soccer team gets its ass kicked all the time and has to hire foreign has been players.
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#18 2008-08-21 11:44 pm
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I don't thing that headers are the only reason that the US (and Canadian) soccer teams mainly suck. Probably has more to do with the prevalence of (real) football, baseball, basketball and hockey. Basically no one but 8-year olds play soccer around here.
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#19 2008-08-22 8:12 am
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Re: Hacking to find the truth about a Chinese gymnast
I joined MiniThink when I was living in China.
Of course that was a number of years ago ...
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#20 2008-08-22 8:26 am
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Re: Hacking to find the truth about a Chinese gymnast
Hank Rearden wrote:
I don't thing that headers are the only reason that the US (and Canadian) soccer teams mainly suck. Probably has more to do with the prevalence of (real) football, baseball, basketball and hockey. Basically no one but 8-year olds play soccer around here.
Indeed. And (at least in my case), they hated it.
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#21 2008-08-22 8:38 am
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Re: Hacking to find the truth about a Chinese gymnast
I got ONE DAY of soccer when I was in elementary school. We ran up and down the field and really wore ourselves out. I was stoked about it because, unlike the other sports, none of the other kids knew anything about it (this was back in the Stone Age, of course) so we were all even in experience. I was looking forward to learning something new and MAYBE having a chance to compete.
But then the next day we were back to football, baseball and basketball.....
Aw, he's no fun, he fell right over.
Unless you become as little children, there's no way you will believe this crap.
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#22 2008-08-22 9:09 am
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Re: Hacking to find the truth about a Chinese gymnast
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#23 2008-08-22 10:23 pm
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Re: Hacking to find the truth about a Chinese gymnast
mrreet2001 wrote:
Hank Rearden wrote:
f (real) football
You'd better believe it.
In real football, the real men that play it don't writhe around on the ground and cry like babies because someone grazed their shin.
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#24 2008-08-22 11:01 pm
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Re: Hacking to find the truth about a Chinese gymnast
Does viewing a search engine cache really count as hacking now?
/wishes being a computer geek had never become popular.
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#25 2008-08-22 11:20 pm
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Re: Hacking to find the truth about a Chinese gymnast
Hank Rearden wrote:
mrreet2001 wrote:
Hank Rearden wrote:
f (real) football
You'd better believe it.
In real football, the real men that play it don't writhe around on the ground and cry like babies because someone grazed their shin.
You're right, they retire by 25 and die by 30.
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