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Another One Bites the Dust

Two days ago, I challenged the Chinese government to a race. I posted a link to a government spreadsheet hosted on a government web server which contained the name, age, sport, and government ID number of Jiang Yuyuan, another member of China's Olympic gymnastics squad, which showed that she competed underage. After having carefully collected a series of verifiable mirrors of the document, I linked to it for public download. And now that citizen journalists (and professional journalists) all over the globe have downloaded it and verified it en masse, the the document finally got deleted nearly two days later. Now to be purely objective I should probably state that I can't verify the reason for deletion, but at this point the options seem limited. An Excel spreadsheet going back years containing over twelve thousand athlete names vanishes 48 hours after I publish a link to it? That's no accident. Personally I don't think 48 hours is a very good level of effort for a professional censor, but then I've never done that type of work. So I'm interested in what you folks have to say. So here's my poll, let me know if you think 48 hours to censor deserves a Gold, Silver, or Bronze medal.

Here's what censorship looks like:
http://www.zjsports.gov.cn/zjty/node12/node43/userobject1ai4698/00000002.xls

And here's what freedom looks like:
MIRROR : wikileaks.org
MIRROR : Internet Archive
MIRROR : UCLA News Radio
MIRROR : heathershow.com