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… a quick nine-question roundtable and got some entertaining answers from everyone involved. Read what Morgan Hurd, Jordan Chiles, Trinity Thomas, Sunisa Lee, Ragan Smith, Emma Malabuyo, and Riley McCusker had to say …
… Rio 2016 was definitely her best major competition to date, as she placed eighth in the all-around and fourth in the team final (the best finish for the Japanese women’s team since 1964).
“After the Rio Olympics, I was kind of burned out, physically and mentally,” Asuka recently told us. “But [my passion] came back and now I’m training for the World Championships in Montreal.” …
“I was actually thinking of retiring after Rio,” Asuka admits, “but as I saw Kohei [Uchimura] become the first pro gymnast in Japan, and he is still making progress…I started thinking [that I should do the same]. I started thinking [about bringing] the women’s team up on the stage just like men’s team. So I decided to keep competing until Tokyo 2020.” …
Anna Rose Johnson – ASUKA TERAMOTO AIMING FOR TOKYO 2020
The Tsuk tuck quadrennial was tough. You had to completely finish the 1/2 turn on to the horse or take deduction.
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I was OK with Uchimura winning over Oleg. But I wouldn’t have complained if it had gone the other way.
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Some Olympic facilities will fall into disrepair. Some will live on.
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Rosie MacLennan of Toronto, ON successfully defended her senior women’s trampoline title at the 2017 Canadian Championships in Trampoline Gymnastics at Durham College in Oshawa, ON on Saturday, while World Games-bound athletes Tamara O’Brien of Vancouver, BC and Jon Schwaiger of Ancaster, ON both set personal bests in double mini-trampoline (DMT) finals. …
Jake Cranham of Ontario took the title of Canadian champion in the men’s senior trampoline finals with a score of 159.780. Kyle Soehn of Red Deer, AB took silver with 156.220, and Andrew Martin of BC took bronze with 152.070. All three athletes shared the podium with visiting Australian athletes who laid down the top scores.
“This is probably the first successful competition I’ve had in a good six years so it’s pretty exciting,” said Cranham who trains out of Skyriders Trampoline Place in Richmond Hill. …
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