The doping case of Kamila Valieva has renewed calls to raise the minimum age of figure skating competitors. If it is, Beijing may be the last Olympics any woman attempts a quad. No woman older than 17 has ever landed a quad in competition.
All three Russian women who competed in Beijing are about to hit “Tutberidze expiration date,” the age at which the controversial coach historically casts aside older students with an eye toward the future. She will now turn her attention to 14-year-olds Sofia Akateva and Adeliia Petrosian,Or more likely, an 11- or 12-year-old in Tutberidze’s camp that nobody has heard about yet, but who will turn the current age limit of 15 just in time to compete at the next Winter Games in Italy.
By bumping up the age limit in figure skating, it would throw a wrench into the Russian factory of teenage Olympians. It also may extend the careers of figure skaters whose developing bodies are incapable of landing a quad. “In terms of my expressions and my skating skills, perhaps they are finally being recognized. But that alone has its limits,” Sakamoto said. “In terms of the technical merit, I do need to win as many points as I can. Unless I do that, I won’t be able to compete against the ROC skaters. That’s what I felt on the Olympic stage this time around.”Raising the age limit, particularly to 18, would virtually eliminate the quad from senior-level competition.
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