To believe that a 14-year-old BOY has ZERO business on a 'men's' Olympic team?

[expatinscotland]

This diver is a kid.

Under immense pressure.

'Women's' gymnastics had to change the minimum age of athletes after teams started bringing 13-year-olds to the Olympics and the World championships.

Seems to me it needs to be an across the board rule for all sports - no kids under 16.

What a childhood these poor wee ones must have!

apols expat I misread your typo (as for was) and thought you were referring to my view directly. grip taken, offence not.

No it's so we can say "You aren't old enough to be allowed to model underwear, so you should look like that's what you're doing. Now cover your shame, boy, before you get propositioned by someone old and grubby"

he's gonna damage his, erm, sperm-making ability in that tight, erm, costume .

He's qualified, he's good enough, so let him compete. I think the point about this Olympics was to get the whole 'first Olympics pressure' out of the way before the 2012 Olympics, where he could be a gold medal hopeful (this year I think people were hopeful for bronze). No problem in him getting experience of big events, with the focus on 4 years time.

Yeah, 15 year olds are allowed to think he's hot.