What is the age.......???

Question

I was watching gymnastic yesterday and was horrified to see Chinese players who seem to be in their 12-13s........What is the minimum and maximum age to participate in the Olympics????

Answer 1

Read the other 23046824706 questions you guys have asked on this board about it.  At least your question wasn't rhetorical or a rant though.

Answer 2

16 is the age limit.

The Chinese girls have been exposed as being 12-14 as you say.  I guess China can't win without cheating.  Probably their best gymnasts above 16 were too ugly, so they had to replace them with these ones, like the girl in the opening ceremony.  Too bad China has to lie and cheat because they are so insecure about their image.  It's sad.

Answer 3

Hows it more dangerous? gymnasts train at young ages

Answer 4

Please no more excuses, the USA blew it.  It sounds lame and to argue that USA lost to a bunch of 12 year old kids.  If the Basketball team loose are they going to blame it on a younger team?

Answer 5

Absolutely 16.

Answer 6

At least 16 yrs old & there is no maximum age restriction.

Answer 7

usa could have won even if they did have those little girls out there, usa just fell apart,..  

Answer 8

The youngest chinese gymnasts is 15 the oldest is 29.

If that is cheating then Phelps is a cheat because he was 15 at his first olympics.

Being younger doesn't give any advantage. Flexibility has nothing to do with age, center of gravity is about height. As for Nastia and the USA follwoing the rules. Guess what? China followed the rules AS WELL. Their youngest gymnast is 15 and no doubt will turn 16 this year. Follow the link below.

The USA are pathetic losers.

Answer 9

All most of them looks around 15-16, only the little one looks underage. However why USA does not query their age year before but now after they won

Answer 10

16....

China was cheating. Not only does the younger age give China a big advantage but it is much more dangerous for them.

Answer 11

These girls definitely are under the age limit to compete.  The Chinese government has a rule that everyone has to be "essential" to the success of the country. Children are sent away to "sports factories" by their parents in order to learn diving, swimming, gymnastics, tennis and other sports. If not, they are sent to military schools to join the Red People's Army.

At the "sports factories", they live the sport they are "forced" to excel at and nothing else matters until they are released back to their parents, which is only when they "retire" from that sport to become a baby breeding machine after marriage.

Americans, on the other hand, have lives, can freely go to the mall or visit their friends, can say bad things about the government without fear of reprisals, do not get punished if they make mistakes while performing, don't eat dogs, can grow up doing whatever they want to do, visit the gym whenever they want, can leave the gym to go home to their parents, do not get kidnapped and brought to "reprogramming" centers, are more creative in gymnastics and don't need to cheat by having a communist country's government strong arm the judges by intentionally having them delay results while other athletes are awaiting their start time and falsifying birth documents

Answer 12

It gives an advantage because the younger bodies are more flexible and have a lower center of gravity so it is easier to balance.

It is more dangerous because China trains these girls elite moves and training programs at such a young age that the bones and muscles have not fully matured. In the US and the rest of the world...such training rarely begins before age 10.

If we were allowed to bring in under 16 year old girls in Athens, the US would have easily won the team gold there because Nastia would have been on the team. But because she was 14 and the US follows the rules...Nastia stayed home.