Conspiracy Theories

[emmelinemay]

I've not been able to watch much of the Olympics, although I'm pretty pleased to not that we're doing pretty well this time around. Brits, it seems, are good at rowing and cycling.

There have been a few rather ugly marks on this Olympics though, which are fascinating me rather more than the medals table...

This one is probably my favourite:

0.001 of a second

A site documenting Omega sponsored Phelp's victory in an Omega sponsored lane, to the naked eye coming second but the Omega timing device recording a 0.001 victory. Not at all suspicious.

Age contraversy

One of many articles about Chinese gynmast He Kexin who was 13 last year, but now appears to have a passport that proves she's 16. The minimum age for gymnasts in the Olympics has been 16 since 1990 to try to protect the welfare of child gymnasts. A British gymnast came 4th in this competition, so most of the UK articles are about how she 'should have won'.

Rehearsal injury

Liu Yan, a dancer who was rehearsing for the opening ceremony, fell over 3 meters and landed on her head. Officials said she had a 'broken leg' and nothing more for a few weeks. How the hell you can fall on your head and break your leg, I don't know. They've since admitted she's probably paralysed, and so covered up the severity of her injuries for some reason.

CGI fireworks

Some of the effects in the opening ceremony were faked becaue officials were worried the live ones wouldn't work.

Nice voice, shame about the face"

7 year old Yang Peiyi, who won a competition to sing at the opening ceremony, was deemed not pretty enough, and so a 9 year old mimed instead. kafunked and I commented as we watched the ceremony that she was miming, it was pretty obvious, but we assumed she was miming an older girl's voice! Sad thing is, Yang Peiyi is a perfectly beautiful little girl, she just has wonky teeth, just like a million other little 7 year olds in the world.

And finally, because there has to be an 'and finally',

British cheat caught out by green water...

Comments

[deviblue.livejournal.com]

Thing I'm currently seeing as a bit suspect is the fact china is way out in the lead with 16 more gold medals than the nearest rival.
Its normally the US thats in the lead with those

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

The host country always does well at the Olympics, as I think being host entitles you to enter people in every event without them having to qualify. So China have far more people entered than they usually do.

[deviblue.livejournal.com]

Fair point...probably explains it

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

There's a 3-4x better chance that China will have the most naturally talented athlete in any given sport than the US - they only need to find 'em and train 'em.

[yaruar.livejournal.com]

The US has had loads of it's top athletes either fail drugs tests or 'retire' when the stricter testing came in, especially following Marion Jones, et al. Hence their loss of dominance in track and field where they usually dominate.

China is doing well because they've been planning this for years, every sport they were poor at they have developed athletes for with the intention of being the dominant force in the games. It's not suprising at all when you consider it's an autocratic state with almost unlimited money and human resources.

The only truely suspect result i've seen was one of the Chinese male gymnasts in the rings where he failed to pull off most of the power stability moves fully and yet got one of the highest scores in the team heats.