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...massive new stadium's seating terraces is being installed. And work on the structure that will eventually support its roof is underway. But the progress masks concerns that the economic crisis will hit the world's biggest sporting event. As one member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) remarked on a recent visit to London, Britain's capital faces "the toughest time - short of wartime - to get the project...
Under pressure to address "age-doping," the IOC asked the International Federation of Gymnastics (FIG) on Friday to re-open the Federation's previous investigation into the matter of the girls' ages. Prior to the competition, when rumors of the under-aged gymnasts first surfaced, the FIG had looked at the passports of the gymnasts and declared itself satisfied that the girls were at the lower-age limit of 16, not 14, as some earlier news reports on the girls had noted. Now, the FIG is asking the Chinese Gymnastics Association for further proof of the athletes' ages. The United...
...will it? At the moment, the only proof that IOC and FIG officials can rely on will be registration documents from previous competitions, or birth records of the girls' that would show different birth dates. Biologically, says Dr. David Sinclair, a pathologist at Harvard Medical School who studies the aging process in animal models and people, "There are many possible methods to determine age, but they are not very accurate. The error is about two years." Most of these are also based on forensic approaches and have not used to screen for age in living people. In some cases, current...
...navel along with some vertebral bones, both sets of which start out rough in youngsters but smooth out over time; images of the femur, or thigh bone, which becomes thinner and loses bone mineral over time; dental wear; and closure of the cranium. However, it's unlikely that IOC or FIG officials will go so far as to impose these types of biological tests on the Chinese gymnasts - especially since none of these methods can definitively pinpoint any of their ages as either...
...parents of the girls are outraged that their children's ages and abilities are under suspicion. However, the reasoning behind the IOC's age minimum was to protect the athletes. Gymnastics in particular has a new code of points that rewards the most difficult routines and, as a result, training sessions in the sport have have only become more grueling. Keeping the youngest competitors from the rigorous world of international competition is supposed to protect them from dangerous, potentially life-long injuries. In that respect, age doping is no different from other illegal performance enhancing tactic - not only...