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- Jun 21, 2003
Wouldn't it be great if we could add figure skating to that list of professions that can only be performed by children's bodies? What an accomplishment for the sport of figure skating!
OK, but isn't this the fault of figure skating itself? If it is really true that figure skating is a sport that only children can do, then we should change the sport, not restrict who can compete.
If the rules were uniform like this, then the national federations could apply similar age limits to their competitions so that you don't have senior podium of pre-teens who are not elligible to skate in senior competitions anywhere except at home?
Again, what are we saying here? The best skaters in the nation are children. We adults don't like this, so children can't skate. Now the older also-rans get a chance to pretend they can skate, too (but they really can't, compared to the children)?
If we don't want children to beat adults, then we must change the sport to place greater emphasis on things that adults can do better than children.