Yang Yun to have a baby boy, but how did they know?

Yang Wei and Yang Yun wed in an ultra-lavish ceremony.

The China Daily is reporting that former gymnastics stars Yang Wei and Yang Yun are expecting a baby in November.

Rumors that Yang and Yang already know the sex of the child (it’s said to be a boy) have persisted and are causing some ire. In China, people are not allowed to know a baby’s gender before its born, but allegations of special treatment for the members of China’s gymnastics royalty seem to be emerging.

Yang, the double gold medalist at last year’s Beijing Olympics, and his wife Yang Yun, a bronze medalist in the uneven bars at the Sydney Games, have asked site visitors to their personal website to name their son. Yang Yun is set to deliver her baby in November.

We can’t know the baby’s gender in advance but you can?” someone was quoted as saying in Metropolis Express.

Yang Wei, the 2008 Olympic champion, married longtime girlfriend Yang Yun in a lavish ceremony featuring a hot air balloon and a wedding dress said to be worth $4 million dollars (later said to be a loaner dress), last November. At the time, the couple came under fire for being too extravagant with their wedding plans.

Afterwards, they held a press conference to explain themselves, with Yang Wei stating that he had promised to give Yang Yun a fantasy wedding for supporting him during his pressure-filled march to the Olympic gold medal he won in Beijing.

Yang Yun and 2000 Olympic teammate Dong Fangxiao are still being investigated by the International Olympic committee, who suspects that China faked their ages so she could compete at the 2000 Olympic Games. The matter has been turned over to the IOC Disciplinary committee, and a ruling is expected soon.

Yang, who also won bronze on bars in Sydney, stated on Chinese television last year that she was 14 during the Olympic Games, and Dong applied for a credential to the Beijing Olympics and listed her birth year as 1986, which would have made her 14 as well. Beginning with the Sydney Games, athletes had to turn 16 within the Olympic year to be eligible to compete.