Username: Password:

Blogging. The final frontier. These are the voyages of Dr. Gwenn. Her continuing journey, to seek out cool news and share ideas. To boldly go where no other blogger has gone before!

Visit Dr. Gwenn Is In

hr

Can Kids Forget Their Own Age?

Posted on September 26, 2008

If you have kids, the one thing you know they have etched in their memory banks is their age. They know the count down to their next birthday down to the millisecond!So, this Yahoo!Sports article about Chinese gymnast Yang Yun is interested. Yun claimed during a June 2007 interview it was just a slip of the tongue that she was only 14 while on the Chinese Olympic Team of the Sidney Games. A gymnast must be 16 to compete in the Olympic Games.Giving her the benefit of the doubt, language barriers and pressure of the games and being interviewed could have been at play. But, I come back to my...

Original article link


Tags:
athlete , athletes , kids , olympic , sports
default explanation