August 21, 2008
Proof Chinese Gymnasts Cheated
A screenshot of an official Chinese government website showing gymnastic medalist He Kexin is only 14 years old, thus disqualifying her from the Olympics.
A hacker and blogger? This guy is my kind of scum. The official website for the "General Administration of Sport in China" purged its records of He Kexin's real birthday after various reports claimed the Olympic gold medalist was really 14 years old, but that didn't stop Stryde Hax from finding an archive of the file.
For a country that sponsors hackers that can break into the DOD's servers, you gotta wonder how it is that they don't know about archive caching? Stryde Hax:
In the Baidu cache, which apparently has not been hit with the scrub brush (yet), two spreadsheets published by the Chinese government on sport.gov.cn both list He Kexin's birthday as 01-01-1994, making her 14 years old. For as long as these links work, you can access the documents directly, either using the directions and screenshots above, or these links: cache1 cache2I've posted a partial screenshot at the top of this post. For the full screenshot and updates check out Stryde Hax.
So, if and when the Chinese are forced to give up several Olympic medals thank a blogger.
PS: I sent this off to the Sancrawler earlier tonight to see if the other guys would post it, but I think Howie was too drunk and Trollhammer too into some, er, actually, I don't even want to know what Trollhammer was into. Any way, did any one else watch the men's beach volleyball finals tonight? Awesome.
UPDATE: Changed out the image above. Thanks to Max.
