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Originally Posted by pinksirfidel
Those girls are clearly babies! My goodness, just compare them to our women's team. Its soo obvious, I'm surprised there isn't more outrage about this. To play devil's advocate: if the girls are "babies" they are definitely very talented...beating out women with 4 to 6 years more training.
Is it true that the Chinese simply choose there gymnast in pre-school at the age of 3? I heard from that age, they are given elite training until they qualify for the olympics!
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Your last paragraph touched on why being younger doesn't mean that you have fewer years (or a less rigorous) training.
Plus, isn't gymnastics also easier when people are younger because their bones are more flexible and they weight less. Or something?
