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Fri, 22 Aug 2008|

(Brad Puffer, NECN: Burlington, MA) - It's an olympic controversy that won't go away. Questions about the age of the Chinese female gymnasts Chien won the team gold, edging out the Americans and Massachusetts' own Alicia Sacramone. But now the U.S. is asking Olympic officials to verify whether ...

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