… then I don’t wanna be right.

Over the past two days, a blogger who calls himself Stryde has done some pretty incredible sleuthing, using only Google and its Chinese equivalent, to get to the bottom of the Chinese gymnast age controversy. Read about it here. Basically, it is pretty much beyond doubt that He Kexing, who won gold on the uneven bars, is indeed 14 (and thus should have been ineligible, according to IOC rules), and that China is clumsily but unashamedly covering that fact up–pulling down the incriminating documents after searches turn them up. It’s a pretty inspiring bit of investigation. (It inspired me to order the book on Google hacking that Stryde recommends).

That said, I’m all for sports where girls have to lie about their ages.