Timothy,
Your are RIGHT. Though I have never competed in a Gymnastic event I do compete in a sport at a professional level. My sport is Bowling, and regardless of the sport CHEATING is wrong. I do imagine that if I had worked hard over a 50 game tournament and I missed the finals by one spot because another bowler had falsified his score and ended up beating me, I would be in a pretty bad mood as well.
In this case my compassion for the feelings of these young ladies has clouded my better judgement. My “auto-defense mechanism” kicked in because all I was reading about was how horrible the chinese are and how bad the girls are not only on this board but on several different blog’s regarding this subject. There was only so much of the “pretty american girls” and the “ugly cheating chinese girls” that I could take, so I was willing to go to WAR on their behalf.
Ultimately Timothy, Your are right, Cheating should not be rewarded and if the medals are taken away from the Chinese girls, then I guess that is the RIGHT thing to do to send a message to their government that this sort of thing will not be tolerated.
I have no real problem with the American girls, they competed fairly, although I did tend to notice that they “pouted” and “frowned” a bit, Maybe the camera was on them at in-opertune moments. And sure, it does not real matter that I thought the Chinese girls were “cuter”, that is just my opinion.
The funny thing is after all this, one would think that I must be Chinese.
WHY would your average white guy from San Diego, CA care so much about the feelings of young Chinese girls he has never met???
Wish I had the answer to.
