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Originally posted by honeychile
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong (as I'm sure they will!), but Michelle Kwan was 13 the first time she qualified for the Olympics.
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I also was thinking that Tara Lipinski was 14 when she won gold...the 16 age-limit could be a recent rule or a rule for other countries
(ETA: Went and checked - Tara was 15 when she won, and Michelle WAS 13 in 1994 when she was an alternate for the team)
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Originally posted by ASUADPi
I was happy that they were still able to recieve a medal. It makes me wonder though if falls where someone is possibly injured at docked less than a fall where someone isn't injured? (If that made any sense at all).
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I was watching the Olympic Ice Program today on USA, and the two commentators (Sele and Pelletier (I may be misspelling his name here)) were mentioning that they were lucky that they didn't miss any of their planned elements during the time until they could "restart" their program - that may have helped them maintain their medal position, based on the new scoring system, more than the possible "docking less" of a fall where someone could potentially be injured (although, there still is some objectivity in the "presentation" marks).