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Post by Martina on May 23, 2009 13:13:14 GMT -5
What do you think??
Is it good there is an age limit in gymnastics??
Do you think it changes anything on how a gymnast is trained and prepared for the big meets??
Would you keep the age limit at 16 or would you lower/increase it??
It`s known Bruno Grandi would like to increase the limit to 18 which imo is complete nonsense.....personally I´d rather keep it like it is or lower it a little....
What do YOU think about this? What would you do if you were to decide?
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Post by ozrussia on May 23, 2009 17:35:05 GMT -5
Moving the age limit? Moving it to 18 years old: the elite gymnastics will lose the best of the gymnasts performance! The major part of the gymnasts are getting a first top level of performance approx around 15/17 years old aged. Decreasing the limit? If the countries respect the real age of the gymnasts (maybe with the new passport created by the FIG), it can be good to decrease it to 15 years. But not under this value. Argument to not decrease the limit: children doing gymnastics and competing facing young women always look a strange thing: we often watch this duality with Romanian and Chinese gymnastics. So, to resume, junior section and senior section are currently on a correct balance. And I keep the today limit at 16 years old to become senior.  |
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Post by david on May 25, 2009 16:46:59 GMT -5
Age? Shall lawyers get involved quoting Human Rights!!!! There is no right or wrong answer, but there are rumours that a certain Federation did quote gymnasts being older than they really were.......
If your good enough you are old enough......but it could be silly having 13 year olds up against 20 year olds. I would have to concur the current age limits would have to stay until someone comes up with a better plan.
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Post by ozrussia on Jun 4, 2009 16:50:44 GMT -5
The Code of points contents is fundamental too in such choice. If you try to get a gymnastics sport with pile of acrobatic skills, obviously the best performers will be the gym between 14-16 years old and older gymnasts will be obliged to adapt their routine. Remember Svetya Khorkina Floor evolutions in her career, from the Junior European in 83 and 84 to the Floor of Amsterdam 2004 for instance. French Isabelle Severino also met such difficulties and finally got injuried after trying to follow the floor evolution. On the balance, we must check the injuries probabilities due to a too much acrobatic C.o.p., getting pile of gymnasts leaving the sport after injuries is not the goal. Such fact can hit young performers and also older ones. So, the right answer is not easy to find. The central fact I keep in mind: senior gymnastics is a young women sports not a child one. China and Romania forgot it in the past but also gave us the most wonderful competitive gymnasts with Catalina Ponor and Cheng Fei. So the C.o.p. requires to reach an equilibrium... never easy to find it of course. Mixing the C. o. p. rules and the age limits, I keep the today limits. |
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Post by kitty on Jun 10, 2009 14:45:16 GMT -5
The age limit should be 14 again for female gymnasts to me. This is when the girls are cleaning up and getting better. They are also not so injured by this time.
Just because there is an age limit to 16, 18, 20 and beyond, doesnt mean that a gymnast wont START gymnastics many years prior and still be ready for competition by 14. The only problem is that the gymnast wont be able to compete as much prior to her career ending injury.
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