Exactly. So why raise to 17?
16, not 17.
Exactly. So why raise to 17?
16, not 17.
The initial remark that triggered this thread was by Barton commenting during the JWC, and he said the change discussed/proposed etc to 17, not 16. He didn’t say it in the official capacity or quoted specific document, so fwiw
That's what we should do. Wait.Assuming Worlds is cancelled, full stop, next year's Worlds would be a good test case, because all of the top skaters would be 16 or older. Will they all have their jumps? Will growth spurts take some out of the running? Will "artistry" be noticeably better?
I found this article about Olympic football interesting. FISA just ruled that players cannot be over 24, except for 3 exceptions per team.
https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2020/04/03/fifa-olympic-soccer-age-rule/
Maybe we are going the wrong way with figure skating. Instead of raising the minimum age from 15 to 17, we should impose a maximum age. Once you hit 20, you are ineligible. (Exception: 22 for male pairs skaters and 24 for male ice dancers.) :yes:
I found this article about Olympic football interesting. FISA just ruled that players cannot be over 24, except for 3 exceptions per team.
https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2020/04/03/fifa-olympic-soccer-age-rule/
Maybe we are going the wrong way with figure skating. Instead of raising the minimum age from 15 to 17, we should impose a maximum age. Once you hit 20, you are ineligible. (Exception: 22 for male pairs skaters and 24 for male ice dancers.) :yes:
Still am yet to see an argument for this that isn't a not-even-thinly-veiled "waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah the russian girls keep winning!".
Nobody reads my posts, :giveup:
But I give up. I really don't give a rat's patootie if the Russian girls win everything, nothing, or whatever. I do care about health. Am I right or wrong in my estimation of what would be healthier? Who knows
But I'm not whining about the ladies' results because I hardly watch them and I don't care.
Nobody reads my posts, :giveup:
But I give up. I really don't give a rat's patootie if the Russian girls win everything, nothing, or whatever. I do care about health. Am I right or wrong in my estimation of what would be healthier? Who knows
But I'm not whining about the ladies' results because I hardly watch them and I don't care.
You keep saying "for their health" but I am yet to see any studies on how exactly this would be better.
I think it's crazy that the ISU did safety studies on the quad twist and none on quad jumps (for men or women).
I found this article about Olympic football interesting. FISA just ruled that players cannot be over 24, except for 3 exceptions per team.
https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2020/04/03/fifa-olympic-soccer-age-rule/
Maybe we are going the wrong way with figure skating. Instead of raising the minimum age from 15 to 17, we should impose a maximum age. Once you hit 20, you are ineligible. (Exception: 22 for male pairs skaters and 24 for male ice dancers.) :yes:
Olympic Games were designated for amateurs - those who didn't earn money on sport on a regular basis. I'm old enough to remember that this regulation put tennis out of Olympics till 1988. Today still in wrestling and boxing Olympics are avaliable only for amateurs while in other disciplines there are specific regulations. As to football, the average age of completing education makes the limit.
As long as I know no figure skater gets their wages as a professional team member. That's why the comparison doesn't make sense.
Still am yet to see an argument for this that isn't a not-even-thinly-veiled "waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah the russian girls keep winning!".
Olympic Games were designated for amateurs ...
I think that is a cynical way to look at it. There is no reason to impugn the motives of concerned fans.
As for "waaaaaaaaaaaa," is it really the anti-Russian brigade that continually moans "everybody's picking on us"?
You keep saying "for their health" but I am yet to see any studies on how exactly this would be better.