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Originally Posted by B-Line
Vin,
Lets say that an underage girl can do a triple flip but a normal age girl can only do a double flip.
It would be the hope that a coach would understand, his underage girl need not learn the triple flip because by the time she gets to the Olympics she won't be able to do it anyway.
In other words, there is an incentive to not push the young athletes to do the more punishing tricks, which will be useless at the time of competition.
So while the 14 year old girl may train her heart out, she won't be training to do tricks that are putting greater harm on her body, because of her smaller size, which is also causing more damage to her body.
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Vin is right. These girls have been training and performing these crazy moves from the time they could walk. How would changing the Olympic age requirement really change anyhting? They are going to continue pushing the envelope on what is physically possible to get one more twist, one more flip, one foot higher, etc. They will be doing things in 8 years that make the flips today look easy. These girls do these high impact activities everyday before and after school in practice anyway. The only difference is that millions of people are watching in the Olympics and nobody watches practice. So what would changing the age requirement for competition sake really do? They have already been beating on their bodies for over 10 years by the time they are 14-16. The damage is done.
08-17-2008, 08:43 AM
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