Although the lights are extinguished and all the athletes have gone home, the International Olympic Committee’s investigation into the real ages of several gymnasts on the Chinese gymnastic team continues.
Mike Walker, the computer security expert and blogger who uncovered purged Chinese electronic documents putting gymnast He Kexin’s age under the minimum allowable 16-years, believes he may have found additional documents throwing into question the age of gymnast Jiang Yuyuan.
A government-issued passport and identity card state that He is 16 years old, according to documents provided by the Chinese federation to the International Gymnastics Federation.
But if the documents Walker unearthed are accurate, He would be 14 — that’s two years too young to compete under Olympic rules.
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Walker said an anonymous source e-mailed him a link to another document still posted on a Chinese government Web site that appears to show that gymnast Jiang Yuyuan was also too young to compete in the Olympics.
Walker conceded that he cannot verify the authenticity of the new document.
“There is a possibility that this government document isn’t real, but what are the possibilities of getting a forged document on a government Web site?” he asked, adding that the document is posted under the Chinese government domain gov.cn.
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