Washington Post has an article.
I'm sure I read from the survey on social media that the junior age could be increasing to 14. Although I don't know when this could be implemented.What's the reason for it to be 17 years old rather than 16?
16 seems OK to prevent the whole "Protected person" palava, but 17 seems a bit much. It'll mean that anyone born after 30th June in a year won't be able to go senior until 18.
Will they end up raising the Junior age too?
Hmmmm
I think that’s the point, that the skaters be 17/18 not 15/16.What's the reason for it to be 17 years old rather than 16?
16 seems OK to prevent the whole "Protected person" palava, but 17 seems a bit much. It'll mean that anyone born after 30th June in a year won't be able to go senior until 18.
Will they end up raising the Junior age too?
Hmmmm
idk if raising the age limit is the be-all end-all solution. we certainly saw how the Chinese gymnastics delegation in 2008 took advantage of the age fakery.
What's the reason for it to be 17 years old rather than 16?
16 seems OK to prevent the whole "Protected person" palava, but 17 seems a bit much. It'll mean that anyone born after 30th June in a year won't be able to go senior until 18.
Will they end up raising the Junior age too?
Hmmmm
I don't believe it's the end of quads or triple axels. I am in favour of raising the age for seniors for other reasons, including longevity. There are ways to train, learn the big tricks and still be skating at let's say 22. Instead of trying to get it all done at 15, delaying puberty as much as possible, and sacrificing other aspects of skating, just to max out the point system. I love big jumps but I especially love complete skaters who manage to participate in 2-3 olympics... oh wait... i guess my username says it all.I'm content with them raising the age to 16 to remove the 'protected person' status from the senior ranks. 17 seems unnecessary, so many people pretend like this will mean quads/triple axels won't happen - that cat is out of the bag unless someone gets grievously injured its unlikely they go away, even if they disallow them (for both men/women) in juniors the athletes will still train them outside of competition because they know they'll need them to win on the senior circuit.
Hello everyone! I saw in this thread a discussion of the ban of fours for juniors. I'm wondering: is the ban 3A also implied? Or is 3A something else?
I can think of many Japanese skaters, who showed promising results at the age of 16 and who disappeared only a year later, so I think 17 actually makes sense. For example Marin Honda, Yuka Nagai, Yuna Shiraiwa.What's the reason for it to be 17 years old rather than 16?
16 seems OK to prevent the whole "Protected person" palava, but 17 seems a bit much. It'll mean that anyone born after 30th June in a year won't be able to go senior until 18.
Will they end up raising the Junior age too?
Hmmmm
I think it's perfectly relevant to point out Wakaba has a 3A, as does Tuktamysheva. With the talent in Russia, it's perfectly reasonable to assume they are able to produce adults who can do Ultra-C elements IF incentivised to change their training methodology - and this is certainly a huge incentive.
Trusova has certainly kept and improved.Shcherbakova and Trusova are both 18 or close to it and still have their quads so the current training method has produced skaters that have kept their jumps past puberty. Or is the adult mark moving again because these 2 haven't lost their quads yet?
If anything, Trusova is gaining quads as she ages... and Russian women routinely trained quads 20 years ago which is something I picked up from Smirnova's interview, so I doubt they would stop doing them in training because age is raised by a couple of years, given how the competition is on junior level.Shcherbakova and Trusova are both 18 or close to it and still have their quads so the current training method has produced skaters that have kept their jumps past puberty. Or is the adult mark moving again because these 2 haven't lost their quads yet?