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Allah has a long thread about suspicions that China's gold-medal gymnatic team includes girls under the IOC-mandated minimum age of 16. He includes this video in which NBC panelists discuss the situation:
All the panelists speak of the advantage of younger girls in gymnastics in terms of psychology, but the actual advantage is physiological. As girls mature, their pelves (sorry, but that's the plural of "pelvis") become wider and heavier, giving them a lower center of gravity. This makes it more difficult to perform the rapid flips, handstands, etc.
As Allah notes, the average Chinese Olympic gymnast was 3 inches shorter and 30 pounds lighter than the average member of the U.S. team, and that difference is mostly a function of age and maturation level. Of course, since the Chinese girls are under a totalitarian regime, their diet and exercise regimens might be more tightly orchestrated to control their weight.
Frankly, I think it's idiotic to put a minimum age limit on Olympic athletes. If the Olympics is supposed to be about competition among the best athletes in the world, who cares if the world's greatest gymnasts happen to be 14-year-old girls?
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Are the Olymics supposed to be about amateur athletes?
ReplyDeleteIs it ghoulish to think that children are whisked away at an early age to be fed to this athletic machine?
Is there any doubt that the ecstasy of gold will soon trigger genetic experiments on people to break more records?
Sports are about playing them, not breeding super-people.
Frankly, I think it's idiotic to put a minimum age limit on Olympic athletes. If the Olympics is supposed to be about competition among the best athletes in the world, who cares if the world's greatest gymnasts happen to be 14-year-old girls?
ReplyDeleteBecause it's yet one more way of treating children like adults (professional athletes in this example), which is a vice this society already engages in too much.