Good luck, B-rizzle. Make us proud!
"Aaaand I would have to say... my idea of a perfect Sunday is... NO TRAINING!"Wednesday, May 20, 2009
It's Britt G, B***h!!!
Victoria's own Britt Greeley is one of six athletes to appear at tomorrow's OMGZ 500 DAYS TIL DELHI COMMONWEALTH GAMES YOU GUYS, LET'S SEE IF JOHN BRUMBY MENTIONS IT ON TWITTER LOL!!!1! media launch and chef-de-mission announcement. She will be representing the hundreds of starry-eyed athletes aiming for the 2010 Australian team.
Good luck, B-rizzle. Make us proud!
"Aaaand I would have to say... my idea of a perfect Sunday is... NO TRAINING!"
Good luck, B-rizzle. Make us proud!
"Aaaand I would have to say... my idea of a perfect Sunday is... NO TRAINING!"
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It's going to be very interesting to see who makes Commonwealths - especially as the age requirement is younger than that of Worlds and Olympics. So who knows? There may be a 12-13 year old getting herself ready to blow us all away in India next year. Britt may even be one of the older ones. :-)
Good luck to all the girls.
I thought the age requirement was 16???
Senior is usually 16 by the 31st December, Comm Games has a lower age limit which gives more kids some exposure so is 15yrs by 31st December.
Melb Comm Games had several 14yr olds including Ash Brennan
Not at CWG, world championships and olympics they have to be 16. Although people who turn 16 in the olympic year can compete at the previous years worlds. CGW are completely different, juniors and seniors can compete together. I am not sure if there if there is an specific age limit for gymnastics at CWG that is different from the other sports but I think competitors at CWG have to have turned 13, I could be wrong but I think that is what it is. Ashleigh Brennan was 15 in Melbourne, Sarah Lauren was 15 in Manchester and Allana Slater was 14 in KL, so the age limit is definately lower.
Ash Brennan's birthday is in January so she was 15 in Melbourne. Becky Downie competed for England and she was born in Jan 1992, so had only recently turned 14. So 14 year olds must be able to compete, even if they don't turn 15 that year, unless things have changed since Melbourne.
I thought they had to be turning 14 by Dec 31 of that year because then they were age eligible for the next olympics (16 two years later).
As long as you turn 15 that year you can compete. So if you're 14 like you can still compete. AT KL Allana was 14 but by Dec 31st she was 15 and therefore was allowed to cpete that year at CWG>
The World's proceeding an Olympic Games allows girls who will be 16 by the end of the floowing year to compete. This is done to give them some experience as they will be eligible for the Olympics but not for that year's worlds if the usual rules are followed. I believe this was the case for Ksenia Semenova who was still 14 when she became world champion in 2007.
Not anymore! You now MUST be turning 16 in the year of the Games. This is now the case for ALL Worlds, Olympics and CWG. This is a new rule brought in earlier this year.
I heard the rules may being changed for worlds but I din't realise it was for CWG too. Allana Slater was born in April 84 according to Wikipedia so she would not have turned 15 in 1998. Ksenia Semenova was only 14 when she became world champ, she was 15 later that year. Shawn Johnson was only 15 in 2007, but turned 15 in January.
I hadn't heard the new age rules that eliminate the 'turning-15-in-the-year-before-the-Olympics' trick include the CWG... where did that info come from? I'd be surprised if that's the case actually- it doesn't seem that anybody is particularly happy with the FIG's push for higher age limits, and the FIG has nothing to do with the organistaion of CWG. The FIG actually want to make the minimum age 18, which would have a MAJOR impact on the Australian WAG team... how many Aussie girls in recent years have stuck around that long?
Yewww go Britt! I can't wait to see how she does leading up to these CWG and who else joins her there! I hope some girls do blow us away!
brinds
Trudy McIntosh was the youngest athlete (not just gymnastics) in the entire Aussie team in 1998 KL. The media did a big feature story on her for this very reason. She was only 13 when the team was selected (and travelled to KL), but had just turned 14 by the time the Games openened.
Trudy won quite a few medals in KL (beam gold, team gold, AA bronze and vault silver). She was definitely a promising junior before this big debut, but everyone was surprised by her outstanding performance in Kuala Lumpur. Allana Slater was only slightly older than Trudy - just by a few months. They both turned 14 that year. Thank goodness we had these two juniors on our team - they were outstanding competitors, and very much contributed to Australia's success.
I hadn't heard about any changes to the age requirements for Commonwealths. Where can we find the official information online?
Not the official information, but this article explains the Welsh reaction to increasing the age requirments for Commonwealths.
http://www.welshsports.org.uk/news/index.asp?action=goNews&naction=viewArticle&category=9&uID=&ID=953
Given that the GB countries perform separately at Commonwealths, it might be difficult for each of them to field a strong team of gymnasts aged 16 and over.
*sigh*
The FIG technical rules state:
For the official senior competitions of the FIG and for the Olympic Games the participants must, in the year of the competition, have the following minimum age:
Women's Artistic Gymnastics: 16 years (except that in the year
immediately preceding the Olympic
Games, gymnasts of 15 years of age are authorised to participate in the World Championships). From 2009, 16 years without exception.
If the comm games are viewed as official competition then this would be the rule - i couldn't find any other age rules for comm games
2010 is going to be a busy year
GA have started putting information up about Pacific Rim
http://www.gymnastics.org.au/?ID=12471
The rules for CWG may mean that they have to turn 16 the year of the competition but I don't know if the fig technical rules conclusively say that. By official competitions of the FIG I think they may mean competition actually run by FIG like world champs and world cups, the Olympics are stated specifically because they do not belong to FIG and neither do CGW. I think it will be a real shame only to have 16 year olds and older competing at CGW and I think unecessary. Competition is much weaker than olympics and worlds and therefore people can do well with lower difficulty which would not put as much pressure on younger gymnasts.
I think if your good enough you should be able to compete!
whether your 14 or 18 otherwise there being agist
I took the liberty of emailing the Commonwealth Games Foundation to see if they would answer my question about age and they answered back the next day. The response:
"The Gymnastics competition at all future Commonwealth Games (including Delhi 2010) will be conducted in full compliance with the FIG rules for senior competition. Participants must be 16 or over."
At least that clears that up
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