links for 2008-08-24

• China hands over documents on gymnasts' ages
  CHINA today handed over documents to the International Gymnastics Federation who demanded evidence that its Olympic gymnasts were old enough to be competing.
  (tags: china olympics)
• iTunes blocked in China; Tibet album suspected
  Customers in China of Apple Inc.'s iTunes online music store were unable to download songs this week, and an activist group said Beijing was trying to block access to a new Tibet-themed album.
  (tags: china olympics tibet censorship)
• X-rays could tell Chinese Olympic gymnasts' ages, scientists say – Los Angeles Times
  For all the global hand-wringing over how international gymnastics officials will ever figure out whether three members of the Chinese women's team were old enough to compete, doctors and forensics experts said it's actually not too difficult.
  (tags: china olympics)