Yang Yun: China's Olympic Deceit

At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, questions arose regarding five of the six women on China's gymnastics team. Evidence surfaced which indicated that the Chinese government many have falsified the athletes' passports to pass the girls off as sixteen - the minimum age required for Olympic gymnastic competition. While the International Gymnastic Federation continues its investigation into the allegations, additional evidence has come to light which illustrates China's habitual deceit and manipulation of the truth.
That evidence is presented here, translated for the first time into English, so the world can decide. The setting is the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, where Yang Yun, an inexperienced Chinese gymnast won medals & captured hearts by surprisingly competing head-to-head against gymnastics legend, Svetlana Khorkina.
Yang Yun's passport said she was sixteen.
Yang Yun says she was fourteen.
In this interview produced by state-run Chinese television, the truth finally comes forward behind the curtain of manipulation, misinformation, and deception.

Produced by Stryde Hax & HeatherShow.com
Translations by Cindy
Subtitles by Heather Lawver

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Olympics
• Beijing
• Sydney
• China
• Chinese
• gymnastics
• gymnast
• cheating
• IOC
• FIG
• Jacques
• Rogges
• cheat
• age
• investigation
• evidence
• censorship
• Internet

[isuilu]

visited your website. Obviously, you just want to make money out of these Chinese girls. You suck as much as Amerian "peace making troop" in Afganastan and Iraq. I hope you and your country get what you deserve.

[HeatherShowDotCom]

Um, can you explain to me how I'm making money off this? Cause really, I'd like to know, since I've actually spent money to make this video and get it ready, yet I haven't seen a single cent back.

But then again, maybe that's because I don't make all my decisions based on how I'll get something out of it for myself.

[obspot]

I have a couple of questions for people familiar with Mandarin and Chinese dating (not the romantic kind)

1) When Yang Yun say's she was "14" at the time, can we assume she's using Western dating ("0" years at birth), or Chinese ("1" yr old at birth) dating? In that case, was Yang Yun actually 13 by Western dating?

2)What is the exact translation of the "13 yr gymnastic career" phrase? I feel that there must be something lost in translation, because she can't have started training at age 1?

[HeatherShowDotCom]

1) There's no real way we can decipher for certain whether she was using Western dating or traditional Chinese.

2) This is a misunderstanding I'm hearing a lot. It states in the video that she retired in 2003, not when the photo was taken in 2000.

She was 14 in 2000, meaning she was born in 1986. She retired in 2003, when she was 17. Her career lasted 13 years, meaning she started training at age 4 - too young for training to be physically safe, which is why the age rule was established.

[NonStampCollector]

Wow.

Did you know that a story linking to this was on the main page of the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper website this morning?

[HeatherShowDotCom]

Really? Wow, no, I didn't! That's exciting. :) Thanks for the heads-up!

[matsui]

Her boyfriend kicked ass in the olympics

[Holycani]

yeah i mean she certainly looks more mature than some of the 2008 chinese gymnasts. I would not have supsected her to be underage by her looks. Oh well :)

[ChavaAyanna]

Busted! And the Chinese Gymnasts were RIGHTFULLY STRIPPED of their Team bronze medal from Sydney. The ONLY REASON the head of the International Olympic Committee was too scared to really prosecute the Chinese team and HE KEXIN is because China was hosting the Olympics.

[ConsolesR3worked]

@isuilu Ahhhhh Go Wok Your Dog

[2ZXY2]

@HeatherShowDotCom no, for gymnastics, 4 is fine. Some even start earlier, age of 3. For instance, a girl on the American team started at 3. If you start too much later, you'll lose your flexibility.

That wasn't the reason why the age rule was established for gymnastics.

[HeatherShow]

@qlavi I wanted to add, you're of course welcome to look into it yourself. That's why I chose to leave the original Mandarin audio and show subtitles of our translation, rather than dub it. That way it's right there for anyone else to translate for themselves if they wish to. The IOC did, the worldwide media did, and thus far, I haven't received a single complaint regarding the validity of our translation.

Hope this helps! :)

[HeatherShow]

@qlavi The original translation for this video was done by a woman who volunteered from within China. After I received that translation, I had it confirmed by a friend of mine who's a professional translator.

Then, after the video's release, journalists worldwide did their own investigations to confirm the validity of our translation, including journalists from the Wall Street Journal, AP, Reuters & literally dozens of international media outlets from Australia, Japan, Singapore, etc.

[qlavi]

How do you guys know for sure that this translation is correct?

[tmwalkerm]

@3Axel1996 And she was busted for it, the system works if people take the time to do proper investigations.

[tmwalkerm]

@babylishee Sore losers? Really? Who got their medals stripped? No response? Didn't think so....bunch of effing cheaters. Russia and Romania have their own political messes to deal with re. gymnastics, their poor showings were their own embarassment, it had nothing to do with the Chinese lying about their ages.

[tmwalkerm]

@Rachman1337 They have plans to award the new medals at US nationals in the fall - FINALLY

[tmwalkerm]

@HeatherShowDotCom AMEN!!!! Finally someone who's able to do math! LOL