China accepts gymnastics medal loss
Updated: 2010-04-30 05:29:56
"We feel deeply pained by it. We will take it as a lesson to learn, and furthermore will comprehensively intensify the all round management over the athletes to firmly prevent similar things happening." Dong registered different ages at Sydney and the 2008 Beijing Games, where she served as a technical official.

Chinese Olympic Committee said on Thursday that it respects the International Olympic Committee's decision of stripping China of the bronze medal that they won in the gymnastics women's team event at the 2000 Sydney Games after one of its athletes Dong Fangxiao was found to be under age.
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A Chinese site, sports.qq.com , seems to confirm: China news agency , Beijing, April 29 - The Chinese Olympic Committee and the Chinese Gymnastics Association, said the International Olympic Committee will respect the penalties handed over within a week the Sydney Olympics bronze medal women's gymnastics team.
China is 'pained' by the loss of a women's gymnastics team bronze medal from the Sydney Olympics, but respected the decision to withdraw it after team member Dong Fangxiao was adjudged to have lied about her age.
The International Olympic Committee on Wednesday stripped the Chinese women's gymnastics team of a bronze medal it won at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.