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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
and ps. do you think the men's gymnasticsguysormen's ice skaters spent alot of their childhoods on the baseball diamond?
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The male gymnasts were probably athletic in general as kids, and they certainly don't peak at 13. I would guess they did manly high school things like grappling around on a wrestling mat, etc. before doing gymnastics in college and getting good at it. Prepuberty training doesn't help a male gymnast. Being scary good at isometric weight training does. Imagine a 12-year-old boy doing an iron cross.
As for ice dancers, I went to high school with a guy who did pairs skating. He wasn't the toughest guy on the block, but neither he nor his parents were weird-obsessive about it. He has a regular job now, and occasionally posts here under the moniker "ironweed." You might have heard of him.
