I watched most of the women's events - it did seem as though a couple of the chinese girls were much younger then 16.
As far as scoring goes, the scoring on the vault and balance beam seemed to not favor the Americans. The thing to point out is that the chinese were not the judges, it was the Olympic judging committee - so who knows why the Americans scored so low.
But that said - they were scored well enough to finish Silver in the Team, Golid/Silver in the all-around, and did well on individual events. The team should be proud of their Olympics.
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