Beijing 2008, or: who else isn't watching?

**Evil_Maniac From Mars** · 08-24-2008, 17:20

Wait - it said on the coverage yesterday that a British diver was fourteen, and he apparently acknowledged that it was true, but he was still competing. Do the regulations differ by sport?

**JR-** · 08-24-2008, 18:01

i think it does, being younger is supposed to confer an unnacceptable advantage in sports like gymnastics if i remember correctly.

**Ronin** · 08-25-2008, 01:48

the age limits vary from sport to sport....I think they are set by the international federation for each individual sport.

**Marshal Murat** · 08-25-2008, 02:07

Age matters in different sports. In Gymnastics, age confers flexibility, agility, and ignorance. They are more flexible than an older gymnast. They have almost no fear, since they can't comprehend the full scope of their events. The event age limit also prevents them from developing breaks and sprains that could occur on over strained muscles.

**Papewaio** · 08-25-2008, 22:23

Diving is gymnastics with water... I can hardly see how being flexible is not an advantage in diving. So the same explotation that is bad for gymnastics would have to be as bad in diving.

But it is by federation... in football at the olympics there is an upper age limit...