More Controversy! Olympic Death Cover Up?
Filed under: Zportz > Politik
We expect the Chinese government to be less than forthcoming.
But, the U.S. government is being a little shady too!
According to a new report, the death of a U.S. volleyball coach's father-in-law wasn't the only American death at the Beijing games.
A woman from Chicago died first.
Twenty-five-year old Ann DeWaters was killed in Beijing on August 4 in an incident that went unannounced and is still 'officially' unexplained by both U.S. and Chinese authorities and the American relief organization she was working for.
DeWaters was working at the Olympics through a Florida human services organization that deployed 160 volunteers to the China games.
The organization's director would not reveal how DeWaters died, calling it "an unfortunate incident."
In D.C., state department officials refused to say what killed her. American diplomats in Beijing said it was an apparent accident.
Illinois congressman Don Manzullo is the only official who has shed some light on the death.
DeWaters worked for him as an intern in 2006. A Manzullo spokesman revealed, she was, "walking down a Beijing street returning to her hotel . . . when she fell through an open manhole and hit her head."
Manhole cover thefts in China are a deadly public safety problem; 24,000 covers were stolen from Beijing streets in 2004, according to official news agency reports.
Most were sold to scrap metal dealers trying to meet increased demand during the Olympic building boom.
This summer, Chinese officials ordered crews to begin bolting down the city's 840,000 sewer covers to prevent thievery and stop people from falling in and dying. It wasn't soon enough for DeWaters.
And, get this…
On one blog, one Olympic volunteer last week posted details of what happened to DeWaters. Within a few hours, it was replaced with a much more 'benign statement' that the volunteer's father says was written by someone else, possibly an embarrassed Chinese government official. Now, even that posting has been taken down.
If this is all true, it seems irresponsible for the U.S. and Chinese governments to not have spoken out truthfully about it.
Plus, do they really think the truth wouldn't come out???!
Makes both governments look like such big assholes!
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hmmm..
loike a bad golf game…a hole in one…
Thank the brainless, retarded sons of bitches who chose China for the Olympics.
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Re: karencarpenter – Do all your comments include a song title from The Carpenters?
Re: karencarpenter – I'm actually listening to the Interplanetary Occupants song. What a WEIRD song. WTF??
FUCK FUCK FUCK CHINAAAAAA
slash hopefully people still stop lying about what's going on at the Olympics… seriouslyyyy people find out almost everything
ps… why the hell do you bother commenting "Hmmmm…."
Re: Andy27 – exactly !!!!! how does one decide to hold the olympics in the armpit of the world???
Are they less THEN forthcoming? God Perez, sometimes you're an idiot.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOSEPH ADAM JONAS!!!!!!!!
Re: amanda88 – hmmmmmmmmmm good question
THE OLYMPICS THIS YEAR ARE SOOOOOOOOO SKETCHY!!
CHINA AND THE U.S. ARE PLAYING A BIG GAME WITH THE WORLD..
I'M BOYCOTTING THE OLYMPICS.
I try to andy27.
??????? what exactly are they trying to protect by lying about a man hole???? It has to be something more than that if they have gone to such great lengths to cover it up!!!!!! P.S.—Do people not watch where they are going any more??
WE HAD A GUY IN OUR CITY STEALING MAN HOLES TO, THERE A LOT OF MONEY IN IT! IT'S DANGEROUS FOR DRIVERS AND PEDESTRIANS!
Re: Andy27 – duh. I just figured out how to get the words to appear in pink. The song is freaky and fine.
Why the fuck are these people allowed to just pretend like nothing happened? They are so sneaky…I cannot belive they were even allowed to have the Olympics. They try to change the "rules" to benefit them. They LIE to get what they want and change the rules after the fact. So typical!!!
Why didn't Her family Speak up???
THAT'S SOME SHADY SHIT!!!
wow I get to be a "source"!!!! and by source I mean I heard this from my friend last night who's cousin is the boyfriend of this young lady. Apparently the story about how she died kept changing from something fell on her head to the manhole and she hit her head story. Also apparently they had to go through a higher up businessman to make a deal get her body back!!
What does this have to do with the Olympics?
Just cause she's a volunteer who accidentally died.
If a winter Olympics volunteer had died in Salt Lake City due to a car accident caused by a drunk driver. Should we blame the U.S. government for not doing enough about drunk driving?
Back to the game Perez. Back to what matters.
and let's say this volunteer is Chinese… would anyone report it… more importantly, would u have report it to us perez?
It's tragic that she died, but if she fell through a manhole, they should say it. It's not like she was robbed, etc. The government is making it worse by covering it up. Now people can make shit up on what happened.
This incident is particularly hitting hard for we Minnesotans especially here in the Twin Cities. The Bachmans are an institution and were very much loved and respected throughout the community. This is still so shocking and heart-wrenching and it's clearly NOT being handled as well as it could be. My continued thoughts and prayers to the families and friends of all the victims. I sincerely hope the Chinese gov't. does right by these families. This is a complete travesty on all fronts.
Further censorship by the Chinese government. Really not a surprise. Yet one more reason to boycott the current games in Beijing. –If you don't believe there is a surplus of them, just do a little reseach on more of China's shady & inhumane practices.
Re: christiebell – Totally agree. Nobody is disputing it was an accident. Accidents happen all the time and we don't make it an international incident.
Dear Perez,
I know you're all about gossip but can you please stop w/ the olympic controversies? In any huge event, you KNOW that there will be controversial happenings. Stop w/ all the negativity? please? You should be blogging about these olympic heroes and their stories - thats what I want to read!!!
ppl get shot and ran over by drunk drivers in US everyday, I dont see them all on the news..
And this accient has nothing to do with olympic or chinese govement ..Perez, you are pathetic!
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Re: Andy27 –
Andy 27 is such a Loser!
Re: Andy27 –
ANDY27 is a big loser!
both governments ARE big assholes. and if you're going to take on heavy subject matter in this blog, you can't talk about it using a 12 year old valley girl's vocabulary. so maybe you should stick to baby bumps and the hills.
This is what we get for having the Olympics in dirty ass China!
Manhole cover? Well, that sure is a cartoon inspired way to die. Not to make light of a serious topic or anything like that. rip hun, thoughts are with your family.
What do you expect? They are a communist country. We better be careful not to head down that path, too.
Re: Indiasoup – ah that is the way of Perez/Mario… I come here to read things written in a light hearted way. Plus, this is his blog he could post about cats and dogs all week and not a damn thing anyone can do… much love
I wondered when someone would report about this..
one of my best friends, her boyfriend is/was one of the volunteers that was with her and one other volunteer when this happened. apparently they had been out that night seeing the sights, when he left these two ladies alone outside momentarily so that he could use the bathroom. when he came back a minute later, one of the volunteers was crying and balling and absolutely hysterical and the other one was no-where in sight.. while he was gone, I guess she had started walking and stepped on the ground onto something covered with white sheeting, which ended up just being white sheeting covering a something like a 30 foot drop. she fell to the bottom and i guess hit her head. it took the fire department and emergency responders over an hour to get to their location, and she died on the way to the hospital.
How did you beat Drudge, Perez? Hell, you scooped everybody in the MSM. Pretty sad when you have to go to gossip to get the latest on world news. CBS, NBC, ABC, all lazy bastards who eat each others vomit and regurgitate it for your consumption.
i agree that some stuff is sketchy, but poor people in the US steal sewer covers too. if ever in atlanta…
I'm sorry, I have to comment. Please, please, please, don't lie about this. Ann was a dear friend of mine from college and her death is not a publicity stunt. Her death had nothing to do with the Olympics other than that she happened to be there.
Re: synsity – Please don't lie about her. She did not have a boyfriend at the time, the story did not change, and there was no deal with any business man.
Who. cares. That lady fell into the stupid manhole herself. why is it the governments fault now? It's not even very exciting news. They reported the "important" stuff right? About the murder? Who cares. Its not like its the Chinese governments fault that people steal the man holes. That lady should just freaking look at where shes walking.
Re: emilyasweetie – Agreed. Lay off the Chinese, Perez. Please. Enough is enough. If you were simply reporting on them, then fine. But you twist it all to make the Chinese people sound like bastards. If the story is true, then that's still sad… it's also sad that she stepped into a MANHOLE. Not the best way to go. However it's high time that you started reporting on some of the good things happening in the Olympics (BESIDES Michael Phelps!)…. Don't try and pin all that is wrong on the Chinese. Take a look at your own country and the numerous other corrupt governments first. Have you ever been personally insulted by an individual Chinese person? I doubt that. If anything, it is the fault of the Olympic Committee as a whole, not just the host country and NOT its people. Get over it.
Perez… like ok, this is so not a story for your site, losing credibility here!
Also, to this poster: hottie , ugh, you're obviously a nottie, anyways, get over it, if you hate china so much ,s top buying your panties from walmart, dumb bitch.
I just wanted to get a good dose of celebrity juice here, instead, another piece of social commentary on the Chinese government. Come on Perez, you're going overboard on this.
Makes both governments look like such big assholes!
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Well, they are.
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Whatever, the Beijing Olympics are still amazing.
the reason people jump and think china is lying or hiding something about this poor woman's death is because they lie and hide shit about virtually EVERYTHING else!!!!!!! china is a terrible country, with horrible policies regarding human rights, and as i said in another post, this is no secret. if you choose to go there, you must realize you are entering a COMMUNIST country, and that if something happens to you, youre pretty much fucked. remember, its not about the individual. THEY DONT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THEIR OWN PEOPLE LET ALONE SOME FOREIGNER.
Re: Andy27 – no offense but your ugly
ahh whatever i dont care about the death. but i have to admit that this years olympics were seriously the best me and alot of people i know have seen so far.
The only "assholes" here are the people that responded to this stupid article written by a uninformed person. It was not a man hole, she was not at a hotel, it is not 160 volunteers and there is no cover up. Andy27…. you are brainless because I bet you have never been to china to see what its like, dont have an opinion if your uninformed, Karencarpenter "whole in one" i hope your family never has to live through what the Dewaters are going thru. You all are horrible. Get a life go and experience life instead of blogging about it.
So you think every Chinese person who drops dead in the US makes national news? People die by accident in loads of countries, GET A LIFE.
Fell through a manhole? Or was she pushed? I think she found something out and the Chinese Gov. just couldn't handle that…What bright shining star of a mind decided that it would be a good idea to have the Olympics in China? Gee Whiz I heard the 2016 Olympics are going to be held in Cuba!
Pfft, effing horrible.
These Olympics are really really shady and fishy!