The Gymnastics Saga Continues

Surprisingly, officials will look into this whole underage Chinese gymnastic brouhaha:

The International Olympic Committee is launching an investigation into Chinese gold-medal-winning gymnast He Kexin's age, the Times of London reported. Mounting allegations that Chinese authorities covered up her age triggered the IOC to act.

I guess the pressure, and the mounting evidence, were too much to ignore. However, I suspect this will go nowhere. As I heard someone on NBC say, the IOC (or the gymnastics federation) has no subpoena power, so they can't compel China to produce any information. And China has no incentive to do so. The most likely outcome would be that China would lose gold medals. By delaying and refusing to cooperate, China can deny the investigating body any evidence that would create such an outcome. Instead, the IOC will likely say, when this is all over, that they don't have enough evidence to strip the Chinese gymnasts of any medals. China, of course, will claim vindication from this result.

Of course, it could just be that the IOC is doing this to cover itself. By taking a cursory look at the issue, they can say that they did their due diligence, and refuse to talk about it further. I suspect that some sort of result like that mentioned above will be announced in a couple of months, when the world's attention has turned elsewhere. What more can we expect from an organization that awards the Games to dictatorships or whoever gives the biggest bribes?