Fools

Had I known about the minimum age requirement for the Olympic gymnastics competition, I would've said the very first time I saw the China team "Those girls aren't 16!" In reality, having undergone years of China's boot camp training, mentally they're all 45. And you can be sure the kids inside are long gone.

Sore second-place winners with desperate measures may have uncovered evidence on the girls' real age, but China would encourage freedom of speech before they'd admit to issuing fake IDs to their athletes, lose face and be stripped of what gold medals are already in their pocket. And come on, if you found out you'd lost to a bunch of little girls, isn’t it better the reason to keep your mouth shut?

Through the Beijing Olympics, China’s demonstrated not only its determination to fulfill its role as the host to this world event and its capacity to turn at least Beijing into a modern city of international standards; but more importantly, China's shown its true ability to fool the world, and get away with it. With just one day to go, all eyes are on China to see how quickly it turns right back into the communist nation it’s so good at being. I hear they’ll be sending in the Fuwas on inflatable tanks at the closing ceremony.