Posted AT 4:48 AM EST on 14/08/08
On the backs of little girls
Watch them face off against each other, and the contrast is shocking. The young women on the American gymnastics team are actually very small. But next to the Chinese, they're behemoths with bulging thighs and even breasts. The six Chinese girls (no one would call them women) weigh, on average, 77 pounds. Several of them are suspected of being younger than 16, which is the legal age for Olympics competition. Some don't even look 12.
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