How has the sport escaped any kind of shadow created by performance-enhancing drugs?
We are very fortunate that we are in a sport where you have long-term, endurance-type physical demands and combine them with fraction-of a second explosiveness and unbelievable accuracy. … You have to have the explosiveness, and yet you have to be able to maintain your focus for hours and hours. And I don’t think they have ever found yet a performance enhancer that will help a gymnast. I’m positive somewhere people did try, but they failed. • • • The ages of the Chinese gymnasts was a major controversy in Beijing. Is there any discussion to change the age limit from 16 and open it up to all athletes? When you look at the cheating in Beijing and the cowardice of International Gymnastics Federation and the IOC and the hurting way they handled everything, I just want to tell you one thing: Rebecca Bross, a young child who had about a month and a half to be able to compete in the Olympics Games – she was just as good, like any of these Chinese teams. … Or look at Nastia Liukin in the p
