Remember those tiny Chinese gymnasts who took home all those gold medals during the Beijing Olympics? The controversy over their ages, and the ages of past Chinese Olympic gymnasts, is still rearing its ugly head.

The Associated Press reports that not only are international gymnastics officials seeking more information on Dong Fangxiao and Yang Yun, two members of China’s 2000 Olympic team, but the Chinese Gymnastics Association is doing its own investigation into their ages. New information suggests the two could have been as young as 14 at the Sydney Olympics, where China won the bronze medal.

The rules say gymnasts have to be 16 during the Olympic year to compete.

"The local authorities provided us with the athletes’ profiles, including age. Our job was only to select the best among them," said Chinese Gymnastics Association spokeswoman Zhou Qiurui Tuesday. "We are not the government and don’t have any power. We can only coordinate."

The International Gymnastics Federation cleared China’s 2008 gymnastics squad last week, but said it still had questions about Dong and Yang and "does not consider the explanations and evidence provided to date in regards to these athletes as satisfactory."

Dong’s accreditation information for the Beijing Olympics, where she worked, listed her birthday as January 23, 1986. That means she was 14 in Sydney. Her birth date in the FIG database is listed as January 20, 1983.

Yang, who also won a bronze medal on uneven bars in Sydney, said in a June 2007 interview that she was 14 in Sydney. She later told the AP that she had misspoken.