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FIG President calls Chinese gymnasts "robots"

yangyilin.jpg In a recent interview with a German gymnastics magazine called Leon, the President of the International Gymnastics Federation, a.k.a. FIG, Bruno Grandi criticized the female Chinese Olympic gymnasts as lacking aesthetic beauty and being underage. Grandi said, "The Chinese gymnasts were robots. From a geometrical point of view the moves were very well done, but compare with the way [Nastia] Liukin performs a single movement with artistry. You can see how she continues to move through to the end point. The other is a perfect geometric figure. But a Code [of Points] will never be able to completely reflect aesthetic moment." He went on to say that there was "strong circumstantial evidence" that some of the Chinese gymnasts were underage. Grandi is now serving his fourth four-year term as FIG President.

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  • Les Izmore

    You don't even realize you misspelled the word do you?

  • nanheyangrouchuan

    gee, that was certainly a stinging rebuke Less.

  • Les Izmore

    Rice patties... kinda like a veggie burger huh? And you're a college graduate?

  • nanheyangrouchuan

    China owes the US far more for pulling all of you out of the rice patties and into your modern cities, designed and paid for by the US and Europe. But all you people have done with your country is turn it into a cesspool of pollution, human filth and very bad Chinese behavior.

  • HowieG

    When every one over 1 month old owes the Chinese 6,000 USD, should you learn to suck it up?

  • RUSHOUR1

    to be exact, 300 million americans owes $696 billion debt to china,which means everybody get a handsome share of $2320. still not bad.

    but it is interesting that every chinese lend $535 to swindling yanks who still call themselve rich and powerful and responsible and, well, deserve to lead. it only proves what mao called them was absolutely right--paper tiger.

  • winterfalling

    maybe he is saying those girls have small boobs and do not look very sexy.

  • Buck Rogerz

    That's because they are trained appliances, selected and farmed like livestock from an early age by a government desperate to assert superiority on several plains.

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