The last time any nation with a full team roster had no teens was at the Tokyo Games. Only three of the other 96 women entered for the Tokyo Games were alive when Chusovitina competed for the Soviet Union at the World Championships. Dominici qualified a spot but is listed as suspended by the International Gymnastics Federation after it was reported last month that she failed a drug test.
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Female gymnasts between the ages of 7 and 10 can participate in the Talent Opportunity Program, which is a talent and scouting program that identifies potential in young gymnasts. Gymnasts are evaluated on their physical abilities at the state and regional levels, and if they show promise, they will be invited to participate in the TOPs testing program and the TOPs training camp. This is a major step for a gymnast to establish herself as a potential elite gymnast or Olympian.
To be pass the initial screening and tests and be chosen for the training camp, she must have outstanding physical abilities and consistent gymnastics skills by the time she reaches age Becoming an Olympic gymnast requires intense training, even at a young age. While still a child, the gymnast will have to devote between 20 and 30 hours of her time every week to the sport. Starting a gymnast in classes at a young age is essential, but be prepared to help her deal with the pressure and physical demands required of becoming and Olympic gymnast.
Live Healthy Sports. The and Olympics have some of the lowest ages in WAG history. Both Olympics were boycotted resulting in a significantly lower amount of gymnasts in attendance.
A single team comprising entirely of abnormally young WAGs would have a greater impact on the data in a boycotted Olympics. With fewer teams competing, the outlier teams have a greater impact on the data.
I also made a second graphic which is the exact same data. The only difference is I put the Y-axis at age zero which may make it easier to visualize with less dramatic gradient changes. The bulk of the decline in ages actually occurred prior to the arrival of Nadia Comaneci in A true discussion on the decline in ages must include the s.
Both gymnasts placed in the bottom of the top, but had signaled the start of a trend. For me personally, I consider the dual success of Konovalova and Latynina to be the first key event in the trend of declining ages. Their success signaled a shift in the balance of power.
Konovalova and Latynina were winning at an age where other Soviet WAGs typically started their respective careers. And soon after other gymnasts of the same profile Polina Astakhova would also find success. By the late s, the first innovative coaches had made the pivot to recruiting and training girls under the age of ten. In the early to mid s the first generation of gymnasts who had been trained in this fashion came of age.
Almost immediately, they started having success. The same month Latynina celebrated her 30th birthday she famously lost to a 15 year old by the name of Larissa Petrik in Of the four highest performing teams at the Olympics, three of them had a gymnast who was the youngest ever to have been named to an Olympic team for that nation, up to that point in time.
The Olympics witnessed the average age of a gymnast fall by 2. For comparison, no other Olympic quad witnessed a decline that went beyond 1.
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