Revisiting Past Age Falsifications

[irichluck21]

Yang Yun admitted she was under age in Sydney.

We also know that several of 2008 China was underage: Definitely He Kexin was underage we all saw her listed as junior in 2007 with 1994 year of birth, Deng LinLin, Jiang Yuyuan, and Yang Yilin were all possibly underage.

 

[CameliasFingerpaint]

The statute of limitations might be 10 years now, WADA updated the doping statutes to 10 years in 2021, I imagine any age falsifications would follow suit, even if it isn’t the jurisdiction of WADA.

 

[MaryClare]

Cheng Fei 2004?

 

[RedBirdie]

Every. Single. Chinese. Gymnast. They all had 1 or 2 years added. Zhang Nan has a 1986 DOB but a couple of different people told me she was 1987 or even 1988. But her age was falsified so she could compete at at 2002 worlds.

Basically, any Chinese gymnast from 1990ish to 2008 competed under a false age.

 

[phoenix7]

Wasnt' there a rumour that Kim Gwan Suk was only 10 or 11 at 89 Worlds .

North Korea took a particularly flamboyant approach to gymnasts' ages. As well as entering sixteen-year-old Kim Gwan Suk as a sixteen year old over multiple years, they had Hong Su-Jong, possessor of at least three dates of birth and a twin sister, Un-Jong, three years her junior.

I like to think they have a research lab somewhere in North Korea dedicated to the eternal question of how far you can go before FIG can't shrug it off anymore.

 

[MaryClare]

North Korea once sent someone to the junior friendship competition (druzhba) who had competed at the universiade the year before on a completely different date of birth.