For What It's Worth, the Chinese

There's been a lot of rumbling about the real ages of the Chinese women's gymnasts. There's nothing new about cheating at the Olympics. A number of athletes have been sent home from various countries for failing the drug tests, and there has been some unsportsmanlike behavior here and there. Some past American athletes also cheated on the rules.

This Chinese thing, however, is of another dimension. It's akin to the the Russians and E. Germans who used to pass off men as women, for example. This involves a deliberate decision by a nation's Olympic Committee to defy the rules. If it's true.

Why is it that people are so willing to believe that the Chinese would deliberately cheat? Who would ever suspect, for example, that the French or British or Americans would make a policy decision to cheat systematically?

Maybe it's the dictatorship?