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- Dec 18, 2014
Not to comment on age requirements, but it is no way in hell true that all elite sports are bad for your health, at least in the same way or anywhere close to each other. THAT is naive. Are elite football, swimming, hockey, badminton, basketball, diving, or zillions of other sports as bad? Not even thinking about young vs old, but whichever way you cut it, figure skating puts unique pressures on an athlete's body. Look at how many skaters comment on how even 100/200g can completely change the ability to jump, that would be crazy if they even said 1/2kg but no this is 100/200 grams!! ...affecting both adults and teens. That type of relationship between weight and performance alone is absolutely unheard of. This is not even mentioning the effect on joints from the force of the landings which increase incredibly for each extra revolution, as well as the psychological effect. They make a lot of massive sacrifices for us to perform how they do and give us what we want, the least we can do is respect it.
To do sport activities is healthy of course. But to be an elite athlete who are aming to be best in the world in todays human society in any possible sport existing is not healthy, nor for the body nor for the psyche. One hour less training per day or training just triples wont make you more healthy in general, by being an elite athlete you are already hurting your body/soul in so many ways. But yot are recieving rewards for that, so its a personal decision to be involved or not. And many other human activities are not healthy but people are doing them anyways, so....