Marquette Sports Law Review Volume 25 Article 11 Issue 2 Spring Flipping and Spinning Into Labor Regulations: Analyzing the Need and Mechanisms for Protecting Elite Child Gymnasts and Figure Skaters Kristin A. Hoffman Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/sportslaw Part of the Entertainment and Sports Law Commons Repository Citation Kristin A. Hoffman, Flipping and Spinning Into Labor Regulations: Analyzing the Need and Mechanisms for Protecting Elite Child Gymnasts and Figure Skaters, 25 Marq. Sports L. Rev. 565 (2015) Available at: http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/sportslaw/vol25/iss2/11 This Comment is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Marquette Law Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. HOFFMAN ARTICLE (DO NOT DELETE) 6/10/2015 2:52 PM FLIPPING AND SPINNING INTO LABOR REGULATIONS: ANALYZING THE NEED AND MECHANISMS FOR PROTECTING ELITE CHILD GYMNASTS AND FIGURE SKATERS KRISTIN A. HOFFMAN I. INTRODUCTION At the 2012 Summer Olympics, sixteen-year-old Gabrielle Douglas capti- vated the world as she won the individual all-around gold medal in women’s gymnastics.1 A decade earlier, sixteen-year-old Sarah Hughes won the gold medal in the women’s figure skating long program at the 2002 Winter Olym- pics.2 In 1998, fifteen-year-old Tara Lipinski became the youngest Olympic figure skating gold medalist.3 Dominique Moceanu was only fourteen when she contributed to the USA Gymnastics4 women’s team’s gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics.5 Further, two of the three 2014 United States (U.S.) Figure J.D., Marquette University Law School, 2015; B.A., Northern Illinois University, 2012.