My problem is that I do not think children should be elite, Olympic-level athletes. Children should absolutely do sports! They can even train intensively for junior competitions and to prepare themselves for a successful career once they have turned 18 and are considered an adult in the majority of the world.
Others such as flanker have disagreed and have said there is no reason to change the age limit. But I think the age limit should change to allow children to be children. Leave the stress of elite sports to adults.
All this other discussion about artistry, health, etc. has no bearing on my opinion here. A sport in which children are the best is a children's sport, and a "children's sport" should not be considered an elite sport. Elite athletes have the full-time job of being elite athletes. Children should not have full-time jobs.
And how exactly changing age limits will keep them out of elite sports and let them be children?
FS is a sport where, whenever you compete on senior level or not, you got to train on elite level since childhood if you want to compete at elite level as adult.
Please do tell us how raising the age limit will keep 10-12-14-16 years old from TRAINING on elite level. Which is exactly the full time job you are talking about. Except they won't be paid for it, I guess that is what will make it not be a full time job?