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"The result showed 3,000 were older than they claimed, 2,000 of whom were no longer eligible for any youth sport and 1,000 who should have competed in different age categories."
Guangdong's sports ministry should have just consulted their passports. After all, if something is written on a government-issued piece of paper, it must be true.
indeed, we must have blind faith in the government, they know what's best for us.