Will China's Leading Lady of Gymnastics Retire? Cheng Fei's Future?

[russiangymfan]

The FIG has issued a warning to the U.S. gymnastics federations for negligence over a gymnast who was not registered in the anti-doping program prior to the world championships. The U.S. entered artistic gymnast Alicia Sacramone on its roster for the upcoming world championships. Sacramone managemed to skip doping tests several times. Mm... very suspecious. If judged by looks, Sac does look very big and too strong for a young girl.

[violet46]

This vault they're talking about, isn't it a double twisting yurchenko? 540 plus 180 degrees equals 720, which is two twists in the air.

[chizzyoma]

@Maebusurleybarely then she was sixteen on Athens and that is the minimum age you need to be to compete jn the olympics so I don't see the problem

[missmouse35]

shes not the first female gymnast to have a vault named after her. theres the korbut, kim, produnova lopez, yurchenko

[joseph0086]

Her performance, especially in vault, is beautiful to watch, the best in the world.

One of the most professional, and hardworking athletes. She is not the typical beauitful lady you see. But she is so beautiful inside. She always responds in a mature way in interviews. I respect her a lots, and I think she's cute.

[ballethoney]

So much talent! I would love to meet her someday and get an autograph.

[mintymoo98]

no, cheng is actually 19, otherwise she wouldn't retire and keep on getting more medals.

[MaebySurelyBarely]

You do realize she competed in Athens in 2004, don't you? She was 20 at the Beijing Games.

[veranationgirl]

Did you know that she spends about $5 a year on clothes and all the money she has earned in her success she gives to her parents.

[USANieke]

Only $5? Wow that is so few!!

[veranationgirl]

yeah. she said in an interview that all of it should go back to her parents since she is reason why she is here in the first place.

[USANieke]

What is her first name. Cheng or Fei?

[veranationgirl]

usually the chinese pu their last name first so i'm guess it is Fei.

[edwardqiu]

no, her last name is Cheng.

[alexzjay]

Her name is Cheng Fei. That's the way you pronounce it. But, Cheng is her last name.

[JillianChung]

go cheng fei!

[ilovelibertyTYC]

I am 100th to comment!

[becmaaa]

what did he say? "Never quit, and be good...??"

[runtap123]

The narrator mentioned that Cheng said of how she achieves her success: "Keep your eyes on the price, never quit, and be a good person."

[becmaaa]

Thanx :)

[russiangymfan]

To those Americans who have stupid "world savers" mentality: Please take good care of your own lives! Chinese gymnasts are fine. Almost all of their retired gymnasts went to colleges and have done very well in lives. For the current ones, Zou Kai has already received over $1 million u.s. dollars since the Olympics and he bought a house for his parents. Yuyuan and Kexin also bought houses for their parents. Hope you could do something for your parents. Besides, they don't smoke weeds!

[runtap123]

Very well said!:)

[ilovelibertyTYC]

agree.

[sunnie123]

agreed. i mean who doesn't practice gymnastic when they are small when they are still flexible.

[morenodelaorilla]

I 'm not fond of chinese gymnasts, but I like what she has done.

[YeEunFan247]

Wo ai Cheng Fei!! She is my role model and one of my favorite Chinese gymnasts!!!

[wildgirl10735]

1:13 she is speakin in chinese and she is sayins something lik "I will continue to work hard"

[YeEunFan247]

watch YeEunFan247's tribute to the chinese womens gymnastics team

[teagarden8650]

youtube: Tribute to He Kexin - 2008

[coralin378]

wow, someone's jealous xP

"perfect"gymnastics

[perfectgymnastics]

shut the hell up reject

[coralin378]

you shut up, dickhole

I don't think you're so "perfect" at gymnastics either.

[topof3hill]

But,we must say Cheng Fei Is Great;)

Even,If she lose To U.S.A. She also will lose with Glory. So,You are Totally Wrong!

Gold Doesn't mean anything. Same goes To Bronze etc. It Just Makes you feel Good. but ,what you worked hard always. will always Prove something.Your Great at it! It's The Effort Shown. Not A Champion Proves!=.='' You're UnEducated.

[emmyjo720]

Cheng Fei never competed the AA, she doesn't do the bars. However the Chinese have taken bronze in the AA at the Olympics in 04 and 08.

[bernardmarianovella]

@emmyjo720 They got Bronze in Sydney too.

[remcap]

I don´t mind the age. These chinese girls worked hard since their earliest childhold more than anybody of us do.. they have earned these goldmedals more than anybody.

they loosed their precious childhold and they will get huge physical problems in their further lifes for sure (cause of the hard physical training of the whole body).

Normal people will break in pieces...

[sakura1329]

if they are underage this time they are only going to beat the us again at the next olympics... i think age should be an issue it should be about skills

[SianRW]

cool

[LiveYourLife321]

and EHMAGAWD!!

youre a stupid dumb blonde! Peroid! omg!

don't try to act cool. you just sound like a slut.

[vix362]

shes 20...

[emmyjo720]

She is now 20...

[lightronger]

Even if they were cheating, what does that have to do with Cheng Fei? She's the one person on the team who has NO suspicions of being under 16.

[davidluk8]

I know nothing about gymnastics, but I think her jump was brilliant. People say that her "Cheng Fei Jump" is the most difficult on earth right now. I like her and will always support her.

[jjjackson5564]

wooooooo go australia! even tho were coming 7 but still =]

[leekymkween]

It's funny how some of you guys are outraged about the chinese girls. IF some of them were really 13 years old, they've done an excellent job at the level of a 16 year old gymnast. Don't be jealous. Congratulate them for winning.

[sprinklefriend]

@leekymkween i don't think anyone is saying that the gymnasts didn't outperform us. of course they did! but that's just the thing - we could've taken younger girls and perhaps outperformed them. i'm can't speak for anyone else, but personally, my anger isn't about jealousy - it's about fairness. when their 2000 women's team was stripped of their bronze, they said, "this is old, in the past, move on." but if it'd been THEM getting OUR medal, you can bet they'd have changed their tune!

fairness.

[MHawk01]

I don't under stand the chinese age thing but I was told this from my neighbor who is from china. She say the chinese let 13 year olds compete in the games because they were born during the year of the rising horse and apparently their age actually double that of a normal humans while the rising horse was over the sky, thus a 13 year old chinese was actually 16-17 in what we may call a normal human or non chinese person? This make me feel better about chinese person and happy!

[d0ggydaddie]

well, I think she hot~~ hornie shitttttttttttttt, haha

[KindaSneaky]

honestly, did you watch that? how many of you that are running your mouths could do that half as well as she did? IF there was a lie, it was a stupid thing to do, but she still did an amazing job. no one can deny that. shes extreamly good at what she does. and until you have real proof of a lie, calm down, it will be sorted out and taken care of.

[1WebkinzFan1]

Go China!!!!

[gilasoing]

why be pissed off the chinese. understand this. they started at age 5. whie others are busy playing barbie dolls

[innocentavril]

okaY!people china didnt cheat juz bcuz the olym was at china and china won dosent mean they cheated!if we hd d olym hd it at america and america won im sure some of u r gonna say 'oo..america cheated!'

people!china won bcuz of they're hard work and other countries won because of hard work to!so stop saying that china cheated for god sake!

and im sure if you look closely china did a little better that other countries.

p.s im frm malaysia so u cnt say im support china cuz im frm china

[chaoticstar16]

people who criticize and accuses this gymnasts dont know nothing.. they dont know what this gymnasts have to go through to be where they are. participate in what lie??? you people are full of assumptions but have no pure evidence.

[conanthall]

How do you know that they are participated in a lie? It is all your doubt and there is no proof yet. Their performance did deserve the gold medal.

[ganjapirate420]

And how would I get to know them? Go to a daycare and play blocks with them? I understand that they may be nice but they also participated in a lie. The purpose of which was to try to bring honor and prestige to a country that deserves neither. At least when Russia was our focus at the Olympics they earned gold instead of stealing it. That I can respect. After all it's not called gymNICEtics

[RobinHaryanto]

i think if you get to know these Chinese gymnasts personally you guys wouldn't say these hurting words anymore. They are trully humble and nice people. It hurts me to read these criticisms...

[snoopyalien24]

americans had #1

the judges favored china

[wlmp]

i bought a bunch of grapes today and boy, was it SOUR !

[1WebkinzFan1]

That was so random.

[coralin378]

no its not, sour grapes = american reaction.

you all need to stop beating this age issue. America was good, but they didn't THAT well.

[COMBATAVIATOR]

lolzzz.... good one mate

[lanuiiohu]

cheaters

[ganjapirate420]

Started at age 4 and competed in the Olympics at age what? 8-9. China cheats and they know it. If America cheated you would be blogging about it right now and the world would be pissed off.

[Multivits]

Marion jones??

[beesbuzz]

it's not like the world isn't pissed off about china...

[wlmp]

of cos they are, " I never thought China could kick-ass , damn we have some serious competition, let's be pissed" (it's always hard to accept when someone does better than you after being No. 1 for so long )

[ricecrackerNINJA]

She's 19. Look her up on the web. She's been around. Cheng Fei is definitely not part of the controversy.

[Sethmaista101]

she's 20 .

[twilighthagane]

so lets assume china cheated...unfortunately, America doesn't even have someone good enough to cheat! too bad.

you're just jealous you can't do that at the age of (supposedly) 14.

[Kronnie2]

Congratulations to China they are doing extremly good in these Olympics :D

Very impressive to watch , lots and lots of hard work, really does pay off :)

[Corweeli]

she is the sweetest girl ever. not only is she good, but she also has a big heart! at the olympics, when she fell, and she was crying? she was still awesome enough to wipe away her tears, and congratulate the gold medal winner! telling her awesome she did, and hugging her twice. nicest girl ever

[chaoticstar16]

love her.i felt bad when i saw her cry after the fall at the floor comp..i have watched a documentary made before the beijing olympics where she was interviewed that she hoped to be part of it and shes really training hard for it cause her body had so much injuries that its much harder for her than the other younger gymnast..doesnt matter if she failed at the olympics i think she is still great she have achieved more than she asked for or more than she'll ever know.

[chaoticstar16]

for me shes still one of the worlds greatest gymnast.go cheng fei!

[koolkurd82]

they cheated the women running for germany ,she did better than the north korean ,the korean messed up

[jamesprc]

Cheng Fei is one of the greatest gymnastics atheletes ever. Though she made errors in this Olympics, she is still a hero, to me, and to those who really appreciate gymnastics.

[ioniccy]

Cheng Fei I love you. You are the best! Very impressive

[ceetboy]

remember chinese push an extra 10 miles when it come to acrobatics and gymnist. they over practice for a long period of time, disciplines at a very young age.

[cheeseballet]

Their training is unhealthy. By their twenties, they will be bow-legged and arthritic. I've seen it happen to my peers.

[justuser82]

all the world is claiming that chinese have the best conditions for training reabilitation, with all the massages and saunas...and you with peers...don't make mockery of urself

[emmyjo720]

Do you think that American coaches are less harsh, read about Parkettes or the Karyoli's.

[marieml08]

she is just phenomenal

[lanuiiohu]

chinese cheaters

[tempusfugit68]

She's very pretty. Very impressive at her skill also.

I think the Chinese have a natural grace and delicate build that allows them to excel at gymnastics.

They are probably more mentally tough because of the harsh goverment they live under.

[Crapidiot]

mental toughness is also culture as well

maybe also communism stresses on women and men are equal

could be

[tempusfugit68]

She's very pretty. Very impressive at her skill also.

I think that Chinese have a natural grace and delicate build that allows them to excel at gymnastics.

[tempusfugit68]

She's pretty. Very impressive at her skill also.

I think the Chinese have a natural grace and delicate build that allows them to excel at gymnastics.

[tempusfugit68]

She's pretty. Very impressive at her skill also. I think the Chinese have a natural grace and delicate build that allows them to excel at gymnastics.

They may be more mentally tough being raised under a harsh goverment.

[chaoticstar16]

she's not that ugly..i think she's pretty.

[tempusfugit68]

agree.

[bluedevil1533]

shes ugly as hell, no offense haha.

but she still is really good.

however, shawn johnson is better, and is the best in the world, thats why shes gonna win all around gold tonight.

[lindap84]

I didnt realise this was a beauty pageant. I suppose you could do better sweetie? lol

[ariemcinco]

Does she need to be beautiful to perform those nerve-wracking stunts? Is Olympics a beauty pageant?

[justuser82]

she lost to a russian haha ...russians r always gonna outplay americans...haha

[cheeseballet]

Last I checked, two American girls just took home gold and silver, LOL. Nice try, though.

[samanthacheng]

?? She isn't American, she is Chinese =v=

[minuku]

did shawn johnson win? oh, no, i think that was actually china. way to fail.

[chaoticstar16]

oh i love her! go cheng fei!

[Kenstaxboi]

one of the best! =]

[misi39]

she's definetely something else

amazing

[limedaiquiri]

中国加油！

[zackk747]

wow.....she is awesome.

[MsBHoopingAllure]

What impressive skills. Awesome.

[LastingTreasure]

Wow. She's good.

It's all about hard work and she'll all about it.

[erectushomo]

I hope she wins on vault at the Olympics. Even though I'm American, I really want the Chinese to do well in front of their own people.

[megatron0357]

U GO GIRL!!

[ralucagymnast]

The vault named after her is actually Svetlana Khorkina's vault but done in a laidout(straight body) position. Its a layout Khorkina.

[gymnastdory]

I love Cheng! .. i cant believe they didnt even metion her already going to one olympics! .. or did i miss that part? :S

[Emz13Britt]

cheng Fei is really good

OMG!

[ponytales2001]

Her vault is amazing!!! good luck to all the competitors in China. Olympics 2008

[gymkrazy12]

cheng Fei is awesome! shes the BEST on vault and i do have to admit she is pretty tough.

[zhilix01]

go go go !! full support !!

[66QQ66]

You are wrong. All best athletes will go. Only before Olympic Games were not commercialized, large scale boycotts were possible. Athletes today won't give up any change to attact fame. In addition, no state can afford to offend China now. Probably there will be more nations boycott the London Games. Shawn Johnson will be her best contender. Do you really think these athletes are that stupid to give up their opportunities to the Olympics?

[pext18]

rofl they just sold out. i think its the first time in olympic history that this had happened.

[66QQ66]

You have a very interesting personal perfile. No wonder you as an individual adopt Amercian military ideology as your own language. No wonder, you as an American think people in the rest of the world will follow what you are thinking. lol.

[jont83]

the olympics will not be well attended this year? wow you're retarded.

[silvukasss]

she's good--really good