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Fifteen minutes is a really long time

First an apology for not updating this blog in a timely fashion, for not responding to all my emails, and for the delay in approving comments. In my defense I can say only that I have found my blog and my findings at the center of an international media maelstrom. I never set out to change the course of the Olympics; I set out as I always do, a curious researcher, intent on the search for truth and the knowledge I could acquire along the way.

A thank you is in order to everyone who has helped me to catalog and establish the existence of these documents. There are so many of you now, I don't know how I can thank you all. But I believe that you have acted in a spirit of truth-finding and openness, and I thank you for that.

I have received a flood of information through my email in the last few days, and I'm way too behind to list all of it. However I feel it is a priority to mention that I am not the first blogger to have started investigating this controversy, and there are rumors that people within China have been blogging on this topic in the weeks preceding my post. Specifically this blog by BillyPan is full of meticulously archived screenshots, news clippings and web pages, and while I can't read the language, the pictures tell a very detailed story. I encourage everyone to have a look.

And now for a bit more content

I've gotten a lot of feedback about the appropriate way to get all three documents, still available from the Baidu cache at the time of this posting, into Google Translate correctly. The missing link here is that when you first copy the information out of the spreadsheets, they are covered in quote and comma characters, which messes up the translation. Groom out the punctuation and enter it into the translation box and you should end up with something like the screenshot below:

That's the three lines in question, from the three documents in question. At this point, I'm going to take a step back, let the experts analyze these documents, and see what the consensus is. I've done my part; citizen journalists of the world, this story is yours now!