What is the benefit of having a younger gymnast?

Question

I know that there is an obvious advantage but indulge me...

Answer 1

I  would like to know too, I know there are major advantages, but I'm not a gymnast.

After all, if there were on advantage, china wouldn't have risked having underage kids on the team.

Answer 2

What Ghadahav Kaffee says is true if CG = Center of Gravity.

In a biography of Bela Karoli, he stated the profile of the strongest person BY POUND is a 13 year old girl.

IMHO, Bela is susceptible to pure B.S., but he got this one right.

Answer 3

You can can get more babbies out of them and it takes longer for them to develop cottage cheese thighs.

Answer 4

they're springier, lol

Answer 5

They are more flexible and at that age they do not have as many distractions to take them away from training

Answer 6

well when you're younger you're generally more flexible and you're undoubtedly shorter which is an advantage because you are closer to the ground for doing cartwheels and gives you more time to do flips b4 you hit the ground when coming off a jump.

Answer 7

Advantages: more flexible, maybe better able to cope with pressure (then again, older might deal with pressure better)

Disadvantages: less strength, less height/reach

Answer 8

no secondary s*x characteristics.

women's CG changes and becomes harder to control when they develop hips [and b*****s]

it changes like the difference between twirling a pencil compared to a bowling pin

EDIT:

yes -CG=Center of Gravity