Hi! Remember me?
Remember all that controversy over whether I was old enough to be participating on the Chinese Olympic gymnastic team in Beijing 2008? I was thinking it’s about time to set the record straight once and for all.
Birth certificate? No, I’m sorry we don’t have those in my country. But what we do have is this adorable live panda bear; perhaps this will work instead, hmm?
Hello. I would like to take this opportunity to say that we Chinese gymnasts are exactly the same as you regular people.
Like you, as soon as we build up the muscles in our baby necks to support the weight of our heads, we are torn away from our parents and sent to a camp to learn double twists and front pike somersault dismounts.
That is what happens to you regular people too, right? To be honest, of late I've been questioning this. If all the people in the world were gymnasts, then who would till the fields, drive the buses, be loved and raised by parents?
Is love the right word? Does it mean "tolerate and commit an act of violence no more than once a day?" You must excuse my imprecise diction, only a few weeks ago was I permitted to use sentences that didn’t contain the words "uneven bars."
Or how about this...
My apologies once again, that’s actually my training partner Li Yu. She’s 15 ½ and is very much looking forward to the
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