Chinese Gymnast too young

[Karen]

Oh I don't think I heard anything about the fireworks... they were fake? how does that work? With all the other strange occurances I missed that one lol

Just the "footprints over Beijing" weren't real that night, they had been previously done, and edited into the sequence we saw as part of the opening ceremony. Which didn't bother me at all, frankly, as if anyone's gonna do fireworks right, it's the nation that invented them, and there were plenty of other real, spectacular fireworks as part of the opening ceremonies.

[sparks19]

Just the "footprints over Beijing" weren't real that night, they had been previously done, and edited into the sequence we saw as part of the opening ceremony. Which didn't bother me at all, frankly, as if anyone's gonna do fireworks right, it's the nation that invented them, and there were plenty of other real, spectacular fireworks as part of the opening ceremonies.

ahhhh I see. I missed the fireworks part of the opening ceremony.

[cassiesmom]

Are there different ages for different sports? I heard on the news that one of the synchronized divers was 14.

Yeah it's really hard to tell with some of those girls how old they really are. they are all so petite.

I wonder if all those hours of training and competing messes with their hormones. They're all so small and they all look so young. I remember when Kerri Strug was interviewed on TV after she vaulted on a sprained ankle. She had such a high-pitched voice, even though she was a teenager. The 33-year-old German gymnast seemed to be the only one in these games who had a normal appearing female body.

[caseysmom]

Are there different ages for different sports? I heard on the news that one of the synchronized divers was 14.

I wonder if all those hours of training and competing messes with their hormones. They're all so small and they all look so young. I remember when Kerri Strug was interviewed on TV after she vaulted on a sprained ankle. She had such a high-pitched voice, even though she was a teenager. The 33-year-old German gymnast seemed to be the only one in these games who had a normal appearing female body.

Yes it does change their development, my daughter did gymnastics for three years and it did definetely delay development. She goes to a chiropracter and has a lot of chronic problems from it also.