The Age Rule

I disagree with the age rule that we have in place now, personally I don't think there should be a minimum age for senior competition and I think we should just trust the gymnastics associations in each country to decide whether a gymnast is mature enough and can cope withthe pressure or not. Different gymnasts will be ready before others and I think their coaches should know as they spend so much time with them! At this time the only sensible thing to do is remove the age limit as some countries are always going to be able to get away with falsifying ages (eg. China) whereas others will never get away with it (eg. America).

Below are some gymnasts who I would like to see get a chance to compete at the London 2012 Olympics but unless the age rule is changed I won't and who knows if they will last until 2016?
Angel Romaeo (born 1997) - Great Britain. Our team needs some style and she has it all style, skills and good form lets hope she makes it to Senior so everyone gets to see her. Beam is her best event but unfortunately there is no video of that.

Viktoria Kuzmina (born 1998) - Russia. She has a cute style but with some big skills especially on beam and floor for her age. You can see her recent floor here

Madison Kocian (born 1997) - USA. She has beautiful form and made her 1st National Team at age 12 at her first Visa championships! Unfortunately she will have to wait until shes 19 for her Olympic chance who knows how her body will be then.

Lizzy Leduc (born 1997) - USA. We all know about Lizzy and her talent and I think she can only improve at WOGA. She reminds me a lot of Dominique Moceanu on floor and she was still 14 at the 1996 Olympics. Lizzy also has excellent beam scoring 14.30 at Nationals.

Katelyn Ohashi (born 1997) - USA. Another gymnast with nice form and she was 2nd overall on floor at Nationals. She is now also training at WOGA.

Lexie Priessman (born 1997) - USA. She has an exciting style with good routines on all events and she already has a double twisting Yurchenko at 12 so there must be potential for an amanar?

Roxana Popa (born 1997) - Spain. She is Romanian but trains in Spain and seems to be the next star and from the results over the last few years (except Ana Maria Izurieta) Spain seems to need a star and I think she could be it.