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Baby With 5'6" Wife Is Slightly Larger Than Normal BEIJING, ....... The world's tallest man, China's Bao Xishun, became the world's tallest father this week with the birth of his first child, a boy whose initial height seems a compromise between his gigantic dad and average-sized mum. Bao's son measured 22 inches long at birth, the senior doctor at Zunhua Hospital in Hebei province told Reuters. Although slightly taller than average for newborn children, Bao's boy came up well short of the 29.5 inches claimed as a record birth length last year, also in China. "Bao is quite happy. The baby is healthy and a normal size," the hospital's senior doctor Zhang told Reuters. Bao, a 7-foot-9-inch herdsman from Inner Mongolia, last year married Xia Shujuan, a pygmy by contrast at 5-foot-6 inches. "I hope he or she can be about 2 metres tall," Bao, 57, said last year about his wishes for a child. "Then he or she can play basketball."

China's gold medal gymnasts aren't the only ones whose ages are getting a closer look. The investigation into the eligibility of the Chinese women's team in Beijing has been expanded to include members of the 2000 squad, which won the bronze medal in Sydney, The Associated Press has learned. International gymnastics officials are examining whether Yang Yun and Dong Fangxiao, in particular, were old enough to compete. "If we had a look at all the articles that came before, during and after the games, there were always rumors about the ages of China's athletes in Sydney," Andre Gueisbuhler, secretary general of the International Gymnastics Federation, told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "We did not have another choice," he said. "If we want to remain credible, then we have to look into things." No other Chinese teams are being investigated, Gueisbuhler said. "At this moment in time, we just have concerns about 2000 and 2008," he