A Scandal in Beijing?

This is in response to Dan Wetzel's column "Karolyis’ sour grapes makes bad whine":

"Dan,I'm not trying to be a homer any more than you are trying to purposely stir the pot, but I must disagree with your assessment -- not of the Karoli's (sp), but of the suspected ages of the Chinese "women's" gymnasts, and of the conspiracy raised with the time delay. As a father of two young girls, even I could see the physical differences in the faces (and solely on the faces/skull structure) of the Chinese vs other teams -- why do I have a sinking suspicion that we will find out in 5-10 years that these girls were underage, via a press conference by one of the girls to promote her book in her new homeland of America? And I agree about the time delay -- please take the time to review the tape and look at the times between each contestant before they go on their beam routine; I am convinced that you will see a discrepancy large enough to warrant suspicion. After all, we're talking about the same folks who have admitted to lip-syncing and "engineered" televised fireworks during the opening ceremonies, so it would only be fair to your readers if you acknowledge the character of the source in question. Thank you for your consideration."

Dan's column does not provide a comment section that you can openly converse with other readers, and it's probably a good thing for him because anyone of sound logic and reason would immediately disagree with his unresearched viewpoint. I'm not trying to be an ugly American -- the silver medal in the Olympics is still pretty awesome -- but let's not pretend to ignore obvious discrepancies in these games. And I'll also be the first to say I'm not surprised by all the new world records in swimming -- it's not all talent, it's the major advances in swimwear and pool construction that's making the difference (just like graphite tennis rackets and golf clubs changed their respective sports). Certainly we wouldn't dare suggest our swimmers are performance-enhanced by any other way, would we?