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The Twin Deception: How North Korea Fooled International Gymnastics for Years

In August 2006, at the Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Surat, India, Hong Su Jeong stood on the vault podium with a silver medal around her neck. The gold went to her younger sister, Hong Eun Jeong—a result that seemed to mark an early challenge to the sibling hierarchy. Four months later, at the Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, the...


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Kim Gwang Suk: The First Official Case of Age Falsification in Women’s Gymnastics

In early January 1993, the International Gymnastics Federation announced a decision that was unprecedented in the sport’s history: the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s women’s gymnastics team would be banned from that year’s World Championships in Birmingham. The reason? The federation had entered Kim Gwang Suk into international competition with t...


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Alla Misnik: The 13-Year-Old Doing the Gymnastics of the Future

In April 1981, a gymnast from Kharkov stepped onto the podium at Leningrad’s Yubileiny Sports Palace and won the USSR Cup in artistic gymnastics. Alla Misnik, training under coach Valentin Shumovsky, announced herself as one of Soviet gymnastics’ brightest new talents. Her uneven bars routine featured what Sovetsky Sport called “a magnificent cas...


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Thirteen in Strasbourg: Krassimira Toneva at the 1978 World Championships

In October 1978, gymnasts gathered in Strasbourg, France, for the XIX World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Among the Bulgarian women was Krassimira Toneva, who, like many gymnasts in the sport’s history, was technically too young to be there. She was born in 1965.

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1993: The Dutch Federation’s Bungled Attempt at Age Falsification

In the summer of 1993, a minor act of deception briefly exposed a much larger truth about international gymnastics. At the European Championships in rhythmic gymnastics, a thirteen-year-old Dutch athlete was entered into competition using a teammate’s passport—an expedient decision made to avoid a poor result, and one that unraveled almost immediately. Wh...


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