3 years after the Olympics, Lingling Deng's teeth still look the same! Deng does not have a missing tooth, she just have crooked teeth. Looks like Korolyi should be a dentist since all he cares about is a gymnast's teeth. Korolyi is an approved child abuser. How many times did he fake his gymnasts' ages? A lot! Yet this person has the guts to talk about justice, he is disgusting.
They've got to remember that kids (girls esp) in East Asian countries who consume non-western diets go into puberty age at around ages 14-16. Losing a tooth at that age is totally normal.
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china just got one of their medals taken away for lying about a gymnasts age in the australian olympics, so to make that suggestion about the 2008 olymics would not be a stretch
maybe the tooth came over another, i knew a girl who had like another tooth over the one she got first, and they had to remove it so it looked like she'd missed her baby teeth!
why the hell would they lie about their ages? Just because the Chinese are better gymnasts and more disiplined doesn't mean you guys can just say that "oh! they cheated!"...
I guess you missed the recent news about the IOC stripping one of the Chinese gymnasts of 2000 from her bronze medal and gave it to US athlete after finding evidence she was underaged at the time she participated. China apologized and respected the IOC's decision. So if they cheated back then, who can say they didn't do it again in 2008? Especially since they were the host country.
Deng was one of the girls that they didn't find documents stating she was underage... so I don't know where you are coming up with this "she's underage" thing. And actually, her tooth is there, other teeth have just moved over it.
@gymnasticsperfect10 when u were ten? i bet u had to get braces. i lost all mine at age 7. and i got perfect with teeth. i used to pull out my loose tooth, not keep them in.
I lost my last tooth when I was 15 years old (nearly 16) so even if her tooth is missing it doesnt say anything!!! And the other tooths have just moved over it, you can see it very claerly in the second picture! But i also think that Deng looks the youngest of the team...
@KarpfenKarpfen at 15? wow, i bet ur needed serious braces. if you have a loose tooth at age 8 u gotta rip it out so ur new one comes in straight. havent ever learned that? if u leave ur baby teeth in for a long time ur new tooth comes in very crooked. everyone should know that. my first tooth i lost was my front one when i was 6, i got hit in the mouth with a football. it was loose so my mom ripped it out. i got straight perfect teeth. u shouldve gotten ur mouth busted honestly.
What's your problem? Why do you insult me? I only said that even if her tooth was missing, she can still be 16 years old cause I lost my last tooth at that age, too.
And for your information i have perfect straight teeth and I have never needed braces although I lost my teeths very late!
All great gymnasts...but I guess you don't know that dominique is even more critical of bela than what you read in these comments. Find out some more about bela's past and see if you are still so quick to defend him.
Yes, I'm sure bela would write about all the gymnasts he has abused in his own book. Why don't you try concentrating more on what his former gymnasts, including the ones from Romania, have said?
"indeed he had no proof. but people took his words seriously."
Because there are lot of bad losers who want to believe his nonsense! Deng Linlin does have a gap, but it's not a missing tooth. If you enlarge her picture, you can see another little tooth behind. Deng just needs braces. But again, I bet Korolyi and some american fans will say, see, they fixed her teeth to cover the missing space. Bad losers can always find reasons to attack others.
Karolyi made nasty comments about his gymnasts all the time, about their weight and looks. He is a misogynist and he sounds like the worst kind of right wing American, Fox News must love him.
Did anybody noticed how loudly he cheered when Luikin beat Shawn for the all-around. Those eastern-european ex-communist sure do know how to stick together.
Karolyi is a lying bigot, who disgraced America in front of the world!! I hate him, and his (he/she) wife Marti. Did anybody notice how whenever Marti walked near our gymnast how terrified they looked. And she wasnt even he frekkin coach, Johnson's coach was the head coach.
The insults to the Chinese must have been embaressing for Shawn Johnson, her very nice coach is from Beijing, I saw him talking to Cheng Fei and the Chinese coaches.
Marta is worse than Bela and was clipped of her power because she can't be nasty when Chellsie and Nastia are coached by their father's and Johnson's coach is a well mannered man in his home town, who consoled Alicia Sacramore who was very upset.
Actually, Chow was (supposed) to be the head coach of the team. Instead Marta arrograntly strutted around like she was the head coach. She job was only to be the team coordinator.
I think Johnson's coach would have made the girls much more relaxed like Shawn, and they probably would have been even more successful. Hopefully, Team USA will placed Marta in the ash-bin of history where she belongs. And let Chow lead the team, like he was supposed to do in the first place.
Chow was really kind to Alicia Sacramore and it must have been embarassing for him, being from Beijing to hear the Karolyi's accusing the Chinese girls of being underage and making fun of the Chinese girls sizes.
Marta was forced to behave by the presence of
Chow and Valeri Luikin, she couldn't say anything to Nastia about her step out of bounds on the floor. Marta can't even take credit for Nastia or Shawn, she didn't coach them and had to be careful when they trained as a team.
they came out of retirement just to coach dominique again.
i said that there were exerpts from his former gymnasts. they are grown up now, and they said that they realize it was just all in their head, and thats why it felt like mental abuse. he never physically abused anyone.
what about chinas succsess?
do you think making a chinese girl practice cast handstands until the bar is covered in her blood ok?
I'm against child abuse of any kind, in any country. You, on the other hand, are defending someone who often gave brutal beatings to his students, some who describe his former training center in Romania as a "concentration camp." When you say that he only "mentally" abused his students in America, you are making a false distinction that psychological abuse is somehow more acceptable than physical abuse, when in reality, mental scars often take longer to heal than physical ones.
Do you think manipulating a girl's father into hitting her for you is ok? Because that's what Karolyi did to Dominique and her dad. It's been corroborated by Geza Poszar, the choreographer who worked with him for 30 years. What do you have to prove your accusations? Also, have you seen Trudi Kollar/Emilia Eberle's interview? She definitely says Karolyi hit her, and is backed up by a nurse who worked with the team and by Poszar.
sorry but i cant see a missing tooth. theres a teeth in that "hole". Could also mean that she needs braces. A lot of chinese girls because of what they eat and their genes generally look very young. Like a lot of elderly women who are like 40 still look like they are in their early thirties
As a coach, Karolyi was verbally and psychologically abusive towards his former students. He also starved them. If the Chinese gymnasts are "half-people" as he refers to them, then Karolyi is "two and a half-people"...fat bastard.
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"One of the girls has a missing tooth," Karolyi said, suggesting that the gymnast was so young that she lost a baby tooth and had yet to have a permanent one emerge.
The grin of Deng Linlin, a Chinese gymnast who is listed as 16, indeed revealed a wide gap. To be eligible for the Olympics, gymnasts must turn 16 this year. "I have no proof, so I can't make an affirmation," Karolyi said.
Of coz he can't, coz there's no way to prove something that doesn't exist. Well I wondered a lot about Deng's MISSING tooth early this year before she was chosen into the olympic team, before she caught the big attention, so I did some small research. It's a shame that a lot of people skip this step before making a conclusion.
What's worst is that Karolyi is a gymnastics spokesperson and it was truly disrespectful for him to state someone's 'missing tooth' as a joke and to prove his opinion. I was actually very surprised that he would say such a thing to any gymnast considering his position and it's fine to doubt their age but was it actually necessary to point out someone's appearrance as a joke? Imagine how Deng Linlin must have felt when she heard people are poking at her 'missing tooth'!
3 years after the Olympics, Lingling Deng's teeth still look the same! Deng does not have a missing tooth, she just have crooked teeth. Looks like Korolyi should be a dentist since all he cares about is a gymnast's teeth. Korolyi is an approved child abuser. How many times did he fake his gymnasts' ages? A lot! Yet this person has the guts to talk about justice, he is disgusting.
russiangymfan 5 months ago
They've got to remember that kids (girls esp) in East Asian countries who consume non-western diets go into puberty age at around ages 14-16. Losing a tooth at that age is totally normal.
hanluy1215 7 months ago
u guys r grabbing on to 1 gymnast underage for china? why dont check the US atheletes underage? theyve got wat, 7? 8?
angelolyz 10 months ago 3
My teammate is turning sixteen this year and she just lost her fifth baby tooth. Is she underage then too?
MelodiaTodoElDia 1 year ago
if yuh look closely her tooth is there but pushed back behind her other teeth
TesahLee 1 year ago
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they are rly gd just underaged
applezmillz 1 year ago
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china just got one of their medals taken away for lying about a gymnasts age in the australian olympics, so to make that suggestion about the 2008 olymics would not be a stretch
logsandswirls 1 year ago
if this is true, those american gymnasts failed hard, losing to an underage girl
abc321566 1 year ago
@HildeG85- what an intelligent argument you make there
can1052 1 year ago
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CHEATERS!
chibangin007 1 year ago
maybe the tooth came over another, i knew a girl who had like another tooth over the one she got first, and they had to remove it so it looked like she'd missed her baby teeth!
amigozz4l 1 year ago
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they totally cheated
gymnast1719 2 years ago
trops jeune pour aller a pekin
98tokiohotel 2 years ago
why the hell would they lie about their ages? Just because the Chinese are better gymnasts and more disiplined doesn't mean you guys can just say that "oh! they cheated!"...
Gymnasticspenguin96 2 years ago 3
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@Gymnasticspenguin96
I guess you missed the recent news about the IOC stripping one of the Chinese gymnasts of 2000 from her bronze medal and gave it to US athlete after finding evidence she was underaged at the time she participated. China apologized and respected the IOC's decision. So if they cheated back then, who can say they didn't do it again in 2008? Especially since they were the host country.
richard1972r 1 year ago
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@Gymnasticspenguin96 you are very naive if thats why you think they would lie
logsandswirls 1 year ago
ur sad
jmnm0 2 years ago
Deng was one of the girls that they didn't find documents stating she was underage... so I don't know where you are coming up with this "she's underage" thing. And actually, her tooth is there, other teeth have just moved over it.
theghastlypirate 2 years ago 3
do 14 year old still have missing tooth? i don't remember i did...
gotentk4 2 years ago
I'm 10 and ive only got one tooth left to lose, dunno
gymnasticsperfect10 2 years ago
@gymnasticsperfect10 when u were ten? i bet u had to get braces. i lost all mine at age 7. and i got perfect with teeth. i used to pull out my loose tooth, not keep them in.
chibangin007 1 year ago
I lost my last tooth when I was 15 years old (nearly 16) so even if her tooth is missing it doesnt say anything!!! And the other tooths have just moved over it, you can see it very claerly in the second picture! But i also think that Deng looks the youngest of the team...
KarpfenKarpfen 2 years ago
@KarpfenKarpfen at 15? wow, i bet ur needed serious braces. if you have a loose tooth at age 8 u gotta rip it out so ur new one comes in straight. havent ever learned that? if u leave ur baby teeth in for a long time ur new tooth comes in very crooked. everyone should know that. my first tooth i lost was my front one when i was 6, i got hit in the mouth with a football. it was loose so my mom ripped it out. i got straight perfect teeth. u shouldve gotten ur mouth busted honestly.
chibangin007 1 year ago
@chibangin007
What's your problem? Why do you insult me? I only said that even if her tooth was missing, she can still be 16 years old cause I lost my last tooth at that age, too.
And for your information i have perfect straight teeth and I have never needed braces although I lost my teeths very late!
KarpfenKarpfen 1 year ago
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@KarpfenKarpfen but shes not 16. shes 14
chibangin007 1 year ago
hmm.. just to clarify someone of being not abusive you have to put the blame on someone else..the chinese..how convenient.
chaoticstar16 3 years ago 2
nadia.
mary lou.
kim.
dominique.
sound familiar?
quit hating on bela (:
carriemydear 3 years ago
All great gymnasts...but I guess you don't know that dominique is even more critical of bela than what you read in these comments. Find out some more about bela's past and see if you are still so quick to defend him.
dakat187 3 years ago 2
actually ive read the book written by bela.
and exerpts from his past gymansts.
it was just mental abuse.
now look at some of these chinese training videos and tell me whats worse that or bela karolyi?
carriemydear 3 years ago
Yes, I'm sure bela would write about all the gymnasts he has abused in his own book. Why don't you try concentrating more on what his former gymnasts, including the ones from Romania, have said?
dakat187 3 years ago
"indeed he had no proof. but people took his words seriously."
Because there are lot of bad losers who want to believe his nonsense! Deng Linlin does have a gap, but it's not a missing tooth. If you enlarge her picture, you can see another little tooth behind. Deng just needs braces. But again, I bet Korolyi and some american fans will say, see, they fixed her teeth to cover the missing space. Bad losers can always find reasons to attack others.
chinatheatre 3 years ago 6
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teagarden8650 3 years ago 2
Karolyi made nasty comments about his gymnasts all the time, about their weight and looks. He is a misogynist and he sounds like the worst kind of right wing American, Fox News must love him.
emmyjo720 3 years ago 4
Exactly, he would have known Daniela Silivas was underage in 1985, he used to coach her, he was oddly silent though.
emmyjo720 3 years ago 6
Did anybody noticed how loudly he cheered when Luikin beat Shawn for the all-around. Those eastern-european ex-communist sure do know how to stick together.
teagarden8650 3 years ago 5
Karolyi is a lying bigot, who disgraced America in front of the world!! I hate him, and his (he/she) wife Marti. Did anybody notice how whenever Marti walked near our gymnast how terrified they looked. And she wasnt even he frekkin coach, Johnson's coach was the head coach.
teagarden8650 3 years ago 10
The insults to the Chinese must have been embaressing for Shawn Johnson, her very nice coach is from Beijing, I saw him talking to Cheng Fei and the Chinese coaches.
Marta is worse than Bela and was clipped of her power because she can't be nasty when Chellsie and Nastia are coached by their father's and Johnson's coach is a well mannered man in his home town, who consoled Alicia Sacramore who was very upset.
emmyjo720 3 years ago 4
Actually, Chow was (supposed) to be the head coach of the team. Instead Marta arrograntly strutted around like she was the head coach. She job was only to be the team coordinator.
I think Johnson's coach would have made the girls much more relaxed like Shawn, and they probably would have been even more successful. Hopefully, Team USA will placed Marta in the ash-bin of history where she belongs. And let Chow lead the team, like he was supposed to do in the first place.
teagarden8650 3 years ago 4
Chow was really kind to Alicia Sacramore and it must have been embarassing for him, being from Beijing to hear the Karolyi's accusing the Chinese girls of being underage and making fun of the Chinese girls sizes.
Marta was forced to behave by the presence of
Chow and Valeri Luikin, she couldn't say anything to Nastia about her step out of bounds on the floor. Marta can't even take credit for Nastia or Shawn, she didn't coach them and had to be careful when they trained as a team.
emmyjo720 3 years ago 4
its marta.
and i bet you anything without him, american gymnastics would have never prospered.
carriemydear 3 years ago
You're probably right, but does success in gymnastics make child abuse ok? Why do you think he isn't the U.S. head coach anymore?
dakat187 3 years ago
he retired.
they came out of retirement just to coach dominique again.
i said that there were exerpts from his former gymnasts. they are grown up now, and they said that they realize it was just all in their head, and thats why it felt like mental abuse. he never physically abused anyone.
what about chinas succsess?
do you think making a chinese girl practice cast handstands until the bar is covered in her blood ok?
carriemydear 3 years ago
I'm against child abuse of any kind, in any country. You, on the other hand, are defending someone who often gave brutal beatings to his students, some who describe his former training center in Romania as a "concentration camp." When you say that he only "mentally" abused his students in America, you are making a false distinction that psychological abuse is somehow more acceptable than physical abuse, when in reality, mental scars often take longer to heal than physical ones.
dakat187 3 years ago 6
And he "retired" because a number of U.S. gymnasts spoke out against his harsh training methods, including the fourth gymnast on you list, dominque.
dakat187 3 years ago 5
Do you think manipulating a girl's father into hitting her for you is ok? Because that's what Karolyi did to Dominique and her dad. It's been corroborated by Geza Poszar, the choreographer who worked with him for 30 years. What do you have to prove your accusations? Also, have you seen Trudi Kollar/Emilia Eberle's interview? She definitely says Karolyi hit her, and is backed up by a nurse who worked with the team and by Poszar.
auswriteratheart 2 years ago
Death to Bela Karolyi!
mcamacho1 3 years ago 9
sorry but i cant see a missing tooth. theres a teeth in that "hole". Could also mean that she needs braces. A lot of chinese girls because of what they eat and their genes generally look very young. Like a lot of elderly women who are like 40 still look like they are in their early thirties
leafaki 3 years ago 5
As a coach, Karolyi was verbally and psychologically abusive towards his former students. He also starved them. If the Chinese gymnasts are "half-people" as he refers to them, then Karolyi is "two and a half-people"...fat bastard.
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dakat187 3 years ago 6
looks like she needs braces...
SoulStealer299 3 years ago 2
"One of the girls has a missing tooth," Karolyi said, suggesting that the gymnast was so young that she lost a baby tooth and had yet to have a permanent one emerge.
The grin of Deng Linlin, a Chinese gymnast who is listed as 16, indeed revealed a wide gap. To be eligible for the Olympics, gymnasts must turn 16 this year. "I have no proof, so I can't make an affirmation," Karolyi said.
dakat187 3 years ago 4
Of coz he can't, coz there's no way to prove something that doesn't exist. Well I wondered a lot about Deng's MISSING tooth early this year before she was chosen into the olympic team, before she caught the big attention, so I did some small research. It's a shame that a lot of people skip this step before making a conclusion.
datoucui 3 years ago
What's worst is that Karolyi is a gymnastics spokesperson and it was truly disrespectful for him to state someone's 'missing tooth' as a joke and to prove his opinion. I was actually very surprised that he would say such a thing to any gymnast considering his position and it's fine to doubt their age but was it actually necessary to point out someone's appearrance as a joke? Imagine how Deng Linlin must have felt when she heard people are poking at her 'missing tooth'!
What a disgrace!
YTsockzAX 3 years ago 5
indeed he had no proof. but people took his words seriously.
ulurunt 3 years ago 5