Team Head Coach Russia in diving, Svetlana Moiseeva told that the Russian side voted against changing the age limit in this sport.
The International Swimming Federation (FINA) Technical Congress has raised the age limit for diving to 16. This proposal came from Switzerland: not to allow athletes and athletes who have not reached the age of 16 on December 31 of the corresponding year to participate in the Olympic Games, World Championships, World Cup world.
“We voted against,” Moiseeva told . – Basically, the trend among very young athletes concerns only the women’s platform. Congress finally approved the proposal, everyone probably decided that now someone would have a better chance of competing against 16-year-olds.
To raise the age limit, 44 people voted, 13 voted against and 3 abstained. At the Tokyo Olympics, 14-year-old Chinese Quan Hongchang won the individual tower event.
Source : MatchTV
