age of female gymnasts....

[Melinda]

Has anyone mentioned the 4st Chinese diver yet who's not eaten in the evenings for a year?

Nobody's mentioned whether that's her coach's advice, her parents or herself but I think that's sad

Wang Xin (left) and Chen Ruolin, the Chinese synchronised divers who won gold.



They are very slender and have very small frames (more so than almost all the other divers save Melissa Wu of Australia?) but Im not sure of the 4 stone?

I hope for her health's sake that the story is exaggerated because its clear that for an athlete doing a gymnastics based discipline, being 4 stone has to be totally unsustainable!

For a grown woman to be 4 stone surely would be at the frail/ cant stand stand up/ cant function/ hospitalisation stage- how could an athlete survive?

 

[felixthecat]

THose girls are tiny but 4 stone - nope, don't buy it. They aren't skeletal - both of those lasses have some good muscle bulk and muscle is a heavy tissue.

I think we may have a slight media exaggeration here (suprise, suprise)

 

[Citizen66]

Here's another fresh off the wire:

Citizen66 protests too much

Right!

Examples?

 

[Melinda]

THose girls are tiny but 4 stone - nope, don't buy it. They aren't skeletal - both of those lasses have some good muscle bulk and muscle is a heavy tissue.

I think we may have a slight media exaggeration here (suprise, suprise)

As far as trying to poke a hole in the Chinese Olympic narrative goes- this story is quite ugly.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Wang Xin (left) and Chen Ruolin, the Chinese synchronised divers who won gold.





I hope for her health's sake that the story is exaggerated because its clear that for an athlete doing a gymnastics based discipline, being 4 stone has to be totally unsustainable!

Funnily enough, the story is nowhere to be found except the Daily Mail and Standard, and it's actually 4 stone 4

Personally, I don't think she looks like 4 stone. I'd say more like 6 or 7 (apparently she's well under 5ft)

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

As far as trying to poke a hole in the Chinese Olympic narrative goes- this story is quite ugly.

You really shouldn't be talking about the Chinese and poking holes, not after that unfortunate gentleman got stuck in one

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

THose girls are tiny but 4 stone - nope, don't buy it. They aren't skeletal - both of those lasses have some good muscle bulk and muscle is a heavy tissue.

I think we may have a slight media exaggeration here (suprise, suprise)

Found this from another source

WANG Xin synopsis

Chinese diving athletes, in 2006 the 15th Doha Asian Games women’s 10 meters Taiwan champion, 2007 World Swimming Championships women’s 10-meter platform champion. The first pair from 2007, Wang Xin and Chen Lin won the women’s double almost all of Taiwan’s 10-meter champion. In a series of games, they have absolute advantage to win easily.




[FONT=&quot]28 kg weight of the 16-year-old girl Wang Xin is the lightest weight on the Beijing Olympic Games, the youngest participant. But if she and her partner Chen-lin, but with an absolute advantage, access to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games women’s Double Shimi Tai champion. [/FONT]

http://idmaimai.com/freenews/wang-xin-synopsis/

but then she's not the youngest participant either

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

China Daily has her at 28kg as well

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/olympian/2008-08/01/content_6896371.htm

 

[Stobart Stopper]

THose girls are tiny but 4 stone - nope, don't buy it. They aren't skeletal - both of those lasses have some good muscle bulk and muscle is a heavy tissue.

I think we may have a slight media exaggeration here (suprise, suprise)

I agree. My son is as skinny as hell but he weighs just over 8 and a half stone.
His body fat is 15% but his muscle was 80% last time I checked it.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

and here's something very interesting re: an AUSTRALIAN contestant

With blond hair and sweet smile, 16-year-old diver Melissa Wu looks dazzling in the Water Cube. She made a perfect Olympic debut in Beijing as she claimed a silver for Australia on Tuesday.

Only 142 cm tall and 37 kg in weight (which is about 5 stone, 8 pounds), the miniature rocket stands tall on the high tower. Wu, the youngest diver to qualify for an Australian Olympic team, took a silver in the women's 10m platform synchronized final with her partner Briony Cole on the third day of the diving competition, becoming the youngest Australian to win an Olympic Medal in Diving.

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

Thats incredibly short.. 142 cm! 5st 8 isnt terribly light for an elite athlete at such a short stature

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I agree. My son is as skinny as hell but he weighs just over 8 and a half stone.
His body fat is 15% but his muscle was 80% last time I checked it.

Apparently her BMI is 14, well under the 18 minimum

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

isnt that an 18 minimum for a 'healthy' average person?

 

[Melinda]

Melissa Wu is very small, but she is strong and healthy. She bench presses weights.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

isnt that an 18 minimum for a 'healthy' average person?

probably

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Thats incredibly short.. 142 cm! 5st 8 isnt terribly light for an elite athlete at such a short stature

Is that shorter than 4ft 6in which is what the Wang Xin is?

 

[cesare]

Is that shorter than 4ft 6in which is what the Wang Xin is?

4' 7" according to my slidey tape measure wotsit

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

4' 7" according to my slidey tape measure wotsit

I call them retractable tape measures as I can't think of another word for them.

There must be one though. Will have to ask my b/f

 

[cesare]

I call them retractable tape measures as I can't think of another word for them.

There must be one though. Will have to ask my b/f

I did an error Tis 4' 8" now I look a little closer *peers*

 

[Melinda]

Emma Pooley has just won silver in the Women's Time Trial and she is 7stone 9.
She is slight in frame, but is strong and powerful. Watch the final 5 km with an uphill finish!

I'll another photo later.

 

[cesare]

She looks so delighted

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

She looks so delighted

Probably proud to have made it as a gymnast

 

[cesare]

Probably proud to have made it as a gymnast

Well ... she is little

 

[bmd]

Emma Pooley has just won silver in the Women's Time Trial and she is 7stone 9.
She is slight in frame, but is strong and powerful. Watch the final 5 km with an uphill finish!

I'll another photo later.

Bloody hell, gymnastics takes its toll doesn't it. I can't believe she's only 7 years old.

 

[Jon-of-arc]

If you have to troll, at least be consistent

Oh no, I feel so stupid now....

 

[Jon-of-arc]

And again- as Ive said, I wish people ( you esp) would educate yourself on the protocols and protection measures enforced in the sport- I cannot even take a picture of my own child at a competition without having first applied in writing and got a permit.

This seems to me to show that, at least in part, the people who govern the sport share my concerns.....

 

[fractionMan]

reposted from the badwidthz thread

 

[The Redeemer]

Even if you're right, I don't see how it's a problem. There's nothing wrong with looking, as long as you don't touch. If those girls are the best in the world then their age shouldn't hold them back.

 

[DotCommunist]

who are you 'redeemer'?

and why are you bumping the nonce related threads

 

[The Redeemer]

Do you want my house number or just my post code?

I post in whatever topics I find interesting. What business is it of yours?