No. Beth Tweddle is 27. The oldest women's gymnast is Oksana Chusivitina, a native of Uzbekistan, competing for Germany, at age 37. The oldest male gymnast is Iordan Iovtchev of Bulgaria, at age 39. Iovtchev first competed internationally after Chusivitina, who was part of the Unified Team (former U.S.S.R.) in Barcelona in 1992.
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Japan's rider Hiroshi Hoketsu at age 71 was the oldest Olympian at the London 2012 Olympics.
Larisa Latynino - Most decorated gymnast of all time. Dominique Moceanu - Youngest gymnast to compete in the Olympics (1996, 14 years old) Oksana Chusovitna - Most attended Olympics, Oldest Olympian Nastia Liukin - Most successful at one Olympic Games (5 medals in 2008)
the oldest athlete competing at the Beijing Olympics in August is 67-year-old Hiroshi Hoketsu, a dressage rider for the Japanese equestrian team. His first Olympics was in 1964, where he placed 40th in the show jumping competition. It's been 44 years since Hoketsu's Olympic debut, and in that time he's been busy running large pharmaceutical companies, including the Japan division of Johnson & Johnson, prior to his retirement in 2002.
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