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Title	China finds 36 players lied about their age .
Newsworthly event	A crackdown on “age shaving” has found 36 players in china’s professional basketball league were order than they originally stated. The result of a crakdown were reported Tuesday in the sports ministry’s official newspaper, China sport daily, but no individual players were named.
Source	Officials have turned over the data to world basketball’s governing  body, FIBA, and the asian basketball association in hopes in winning their understanding, said Liu Xianong, the head of the association’s communist party commitee. “in the future we will take whatever  measures to strictly monitor player registrations,” Liu said.
Newsworthly event	Sports authorities have sometimes benn accused of altering player’s ages to show them as being  younger, mainly to qualify them for youth tournaments. Those false ages stay with athletes and can result in embarrasment and regulatory sanctions when athletes move on to greater succes.
Background events	The government-backed basketball association last month ordered teams to declare their player’s true ages, cheking them against a new nationwide police data base. The opposite practice was alleged in the controversy surrounding the women’s gymnastic competition in the beijing olympics, when china entered athletes suspected of being below the minimum age of 16 during an olympic year to be eligible for competition. The international gymnastic federation eventually cleared the chinese gymnasts of amending birth records to appear older than they were, but continues to investigate the ages of chinese gymnasts who competed in the 2000 sydney olympics. While a global problem, the falsifyng of ages in considered particularly acute in china due the masive pressure on coaches and officials to produce victories and the apparent ease with wich false documents can be obtained.

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