age

The International Federation of Gymnastics (FIG) has conducted and concluded its investigation into the age of the Chinese gymnasts. The Olympic regulations stipulate that a female gymnast has to be sixteen years old, during the year in which the Olympic Games takes place. The FIG has concluded that the Chinese gymnasts have complied [...]

It is a legal precedent in Britain that should indicate that the Terrorism Act has no age limitations:
“The youngest person in Britain to have been convicted under the Terrorism Act has been sentenced to two years in a young offenders’ institution.
Hammaad Munshi, from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, was 16 when he was arrested in 2006. [...]

The story is one which the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was hoping would fade out of the news cycles quickly. For the most part, it has. One of the controversies of the Beijing Olympic Games was the age of female Chinese gymnasts. Registration records of He Kexin, Yang Yilin and Jiang Yuyuan [...]

At forty one years of age, Dara Torres has qualified for her fifth Olympic team. She will be a member of the U.S. national team that goes to Beijing.
Not only is earning a spot on the team a remarkable feat, Dara Torres did it in spectacular fashion:

she won the 100-meter freestyle
she took 0.02 off [...]

It may be misplaced optimism but I want to believe. It is 2008 and Dara Torres is forty one years old. She is swimming and trying to qualify for a spot on the U.S. national Olympic swim team that goes to Beijing.
Yes, I remember how Marion Jones swore that she never used drugs [...]

Do you remember being eight years old? For most eight year olds, being part of the Scripps National Spelling Bees is not one of life’s goals. However, it is for Sriram Hathwar. He’s eight years old:
“…Despite his correct spelling of a word trickier than many of the others given during the preliminary [...]