You may already have heard about “Dasha’s” weekly news column on PerthNow. She trains at the Western Australia Institute of Sport in Perth.
… Gymnastics has never had a large following in Australia, though I don’t understand why there is seemingly little interest in this great sport of ours.
It is repeatedly one of the most, if not the most, watched sports when Olympic and Commonwealth Games are broadcast.
I believe the ratings were also sky-high during the airing of the 2005 Melbourne World Gymnastics Championships. So it is definitely not a question of entertainment – speaking from experience, people never seem to tire of pleading for a demonstration of a back flip. …
Nothing says sports person like an early morning. Awake at 5.30am, the first training session starts at 6.45am – ending three hours and 15 minutes later at 10am.
We then strip off our hand grips and leotards, pull on the school uniform and rush off to school until 3pm. After we have filled our brains with all sorts, useful and completely trivial, it’s time to come back “home†for another three-and-a-half hour session. …
read the rest of her article – Daria ‘Dasha’ Joura joins PerthNow’s commentary team
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