Plenty of lightweights have gone heavyweight and been competitive at the very highest level without limiting their bodies or encouraging young athletes to stunt their growth or get eating disorders, don’t know if there’s a problem with this tbh
Yeah ever since seeing Stefanos Ntouskos I've been wandering what the point of the lightweight category is even for. Like, why specifically 72.5kg? Just such a random number and random category to add to an already stacked sport in terms of boat classes.
@@trenty6175 Agreed, and the women's number is even more restrictive, causes all kinds of health problems and it's totally arbitrary. bit of nostalgia for all the history in it is understandable, but I think it makes sense to limit it, and now the whole lightweight "field" is in the double it makes for very interesting racing there
