He Kexin has been on the front page of the gossip columns lately mainly because of her age. The official Olympic rules stated a gymnast is required to be 16 years of age (or turning 16 before end of the year) to be able to compete. She went on to win Gold for China and it stirs up worldwide controversy about how old she really is. Well, thank God for the internet, we now have good proof that He Kexin’s age is really in question.

Let’s read on for the details…it gets to be quite interesting…

Before we begin, let me share my personal view. I think He Kexin is awesome and the finest gymnast I have ever seen. I am so proud as a Chinese. If the others are losing at the Olympics to a 14 year old, then they should be so ashamed because they had 2 extra years to practice and still lost. So let’s not over shadow the real facts that she won Gold at the competition because of her real skills and dedications. Hats off to her, her coach and her family. She has done the nation proud.

Some posts on the internet have dugg deep at press articles of the past that claims He Kexin as 14, but new articles have less creditability than official document such as the passport which China showed as truth. What we are doing is to find out something closer to being official.

1. First, we find out from Wikepedia that He Kexin’s chinese name is 何可欣.

2. Next we’ll go to China’s well known search engine Baidu and do an advanced search for “何可欣” and look for Excel spreadsheet format.

3. What we found were search results from the General Administration of Sport of China . Hey that’s pretty close to being something published from an official body doesn’t it? But when you click the link, it’s no longer there. I know what you’re thinking, “cover up?” But we’re giving it the benefit of the doubt, it just got removed because it’s old content from 2006. Fortunately Baidu, like Google has its cache that stores past content in its server. As a result, we can click on the HTML view to see the cached content.

4. On the top of the report is the title that reads “2006 National Gymnast Registration”. We take that as official as it can get. Now let’s scroll down to the content.

5. On the 2nd column, we found He Kexin’s Chinese name “何可欣”. Next to it is the sex followed by the Date of Birth (DOB), and lastly the place of birth.

6. You can cut and paste this content from Baidu and use Google to translate this for you as well. Do make sure you take out the double quotes and commas before translating: “618 何可欣 女 1994.1.1 湖北”.

7. So let’s see. If she’s born in Jan 1st 1994, then her real age is 14 not 16. And that’s the scoop. But hand on, what if they did a typo or something. That happens all the time. How can we be sure? Well, how about let’s check back to 2005? We did the same steps and gotten the 2005 National Gymnast Registration also.

Without a doubt, we proved it. He Kexin’s age is not much of a mystery because:

1. You see it in the news. Unless she has never compete for any event, there’s traces on the internet;

2. We don’t always need the passport to be Official. The right mind sees two internet cache proof of He Kexin’s date of birth as Jan 1st, 1994 for two consecutive year from the General Administration of Sports of China. The rest is up to your own judgement.

If you remembered our first picture of He Kexin at the beginning of this blog, you’ll note Wikipedia has put it as “disputed year”. Again, I don’t really mind what her real age is. I don’t understand why the age is such as issue. If a 5 year old can beat a 16 year old on world stage then the 5 year old should win Gold. I still think she deserves the Gold that she’s won. And why are 40 year old athletes are allowed to compete against 16 year old? If they have doubled the experience, they should be in a different league/class and should not be competing at the same level. I think that’s unfair advantage too, but there’s no rules for that as yet.

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