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...lines of the competition floor. The international media had recently speculated that the girls were tiny for a reason - they had uncovered profiles of at least two of the gymnasts that suggested they may actually be under the International Olympic Committee's 16-year-old age minimum. The IOC was satisfied with passports produced by the International Federation of Gymnastics for the girls, showing they are 16. But Karolyi remains doubtful - and critical. "I have no proof, so I cannot say they are underage," she said. "If that is true - which it possibly could be because one of the little...
...China's failure to live up to its promise of free access to the Internet for the estimated 20,000 international journalists expected to cover the Games has become the most prominent bone of contention between the IOC and its critics. The sensitivity of the problem was apparent in Friday's IOC press release, which seemed also to condemn itself in its eagerness to avoid the appearance of a backroom compromise with Beijing...
...IOC would like to state that no deal with the Chinese authorities to censor the internet has ever in anyway been entered into," the statement read...
...their part, Chinese officials simply maintained that there was a never a problem. "We will abide by promises we made in the bidding period," a spokesman of the Beijing Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games was quoted as saying in a press release issued 20 minutes before the IOC statement. "The reporting by Chinese and international journalists through the internet is unhindered." At a rare press conference Friday, meanwhile, China's President and Communist Party chief Hu Jintao similarly told a small group of foreign reporters that "the Chinese government and the Chinese people have been working in real earnest...
...move by China to ease up on Internet control temporarily isn't particularly surprising, argues Moses, and says more about the failings of the IOC than China. It also is something that will come with a clear quid pro quo, he says: "It is not the Chinese government backing down in the face of international pressure. This is Beijing doing the IOC a big favor - but only for the time being, and with the clear expectation that when the next problem happens the government will be able to deal with it with a free hand...