I’ve always admired the solid, consistent gymnastics of Canadian Dave Kikuchi.
And I appreciate his consistency even more in a 3-up, 3-count World Championships Team final.
In a newspaper interview David says his style resulted from a lack of physical talent. (I wish I coached athletes with his kind of lack of talent.)
Some athletes have both raw natural talent and the mental drive that will take them to the top of their sport.
David Kikuchi says he’s not one of them.
“I would be the one with less physical talent,” says Kikuchi, 27, a leading member of the strongest Canadian men’s gymnastics team in decades.
“Nothing came that easily to me. I wasn’t able to do the skills right away. It took me a long time to get to be on the national team.”
That sounds a little modest, considering Kikuchi’s career. His team walked away from the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne with gold. Kikuchi himself won national gold in rings and on the horizontal bar last May in Quebec City.
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