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[quote=Anonymous]I competed at the high school level. I broke my right ankle while doing an aerial flip and spent six months in a cast. I have two pins in my big toes, a frozen shoulder and other issues from gymnastics. Other girls on the team had sprained ankles and were out a whole season. It's a very dangerous sport and gets more dangerous every year as more elaborate routines are expected of us. In the Beijing Olympics both male and female gymnasts were competing while seriously injured - like the men on rings who had injured their ankles on the vault but still competed on rings, hoping they could make the stick at the end, notwithstanding the injured ankle. Our coach just kept saying "Work through the pain". I would not want my children (future) to take this on seriously.[/quote]
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