I’m not really in the business of defending Romney, but I think it was an age requirement that the Olympic Committee had in place for volunteers, no one under 18.
He’s gotten a pretty unfair shake on this.
WTH is wrong with no one under 18 being an Olympic Volunteer, setting up the Olympics sounds like a job for adults anyways. 2002 was a good year for plenty of the U.S. Winter Team anyways.