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Because Asian women tend to be smaller, I don't think it was fair for the US media to compare the Chinese team to the US team, since there isn't an Asian athlete in the women's artistic gymnastics team. I did compare the Chinese team with the Japanese team, and there is a good 1 1/2"-2" difference on average for height and about 5-8 lb in weight. Many of the Japanese girls were around 4'11" and 85 lb, pretty normal for a 16 year old gymnast, I think. There was one tiny girl who is 4'7" but she isn't being singled out.
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