MAIN HED: Does the fountain of youth play a part in Olympic success?

SUBHED: It’s an age old question, literally: Does being younger automatically make one more likely to win an Olympic medal? With age comes experience, but data indicates the average age for each medal winner in the 2012 London Olympics was 25.7. While a few outliers skewed the numbers (gymnastics: 20.8, Equestrian: 37.9), overall most winners fall somewhere along the younger lines, meaning a dip into the fountain of youth may be a county’s best bet for Olympic prosperity.