The Royals got their first bucket of the game when Sebastian Castro hit a layup with 17:25 to go in the first half, making it 3-2. I had all the support, physical and emotional, so I could come back, that was really important.The Jimmies opened the scoring off a corner three by Cole Woodford to give the Jimmies the 3-0 lead with 18:42 to go in the first half. "You can do it if you have people who believe in you. Today, I'm here to show the world that everything is possible if you chase what you really want," she said after her win at the world championships. "Many people didn't believe in me when I got injured. In addition to her vault gold medals, she was the all-around silver medallist in Tokyo and the uneven bars runner-up in Kitakyushu. Knee injuries kept her out of the 2015, 20 world championships and she was not even qualified for the Tokyo Games until early June 2021.īut none of that seemed to matter once competition got underway.
The 22-year-old was born in Sao Paulo but has lived and trained for the past decade at the Flamengo training center in Rio.Īndrade's road to vault gold has not been easy. Rebeca Andrade, who won gold medals on vault at both the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo and the 2021 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Kitakyushu, Japan, will be honoured as citizen of Rio after her golden season. I want to reach my full potential as a gymnast."Īfter incredible season, Rebeca Andrade becomes honorary citizen of Rio "I won the gold and another achievement for me on the parallel bars, but there is always something more. All the hard work paid off, but still it's not satisfying for me yet," said Yulo moments after the parallel bars final. Though the injury precluded him from competing the all-around, Yulo still had a historic run at the worlds in Kitakyushu, claiming the title on the vault, his second career gold at the worlds, and a silver medal on the parallel bars.
"Then my elbow, it hurt a lot, I couldn't straighten it for three weeks. "When we were preparing for the routines, two months ago before the world championships, I had an accident at the high bar," Yulo said, according to a report by ABS-CBN News.
History-making Filipino gymnast Carlos Yulo had intended to compete in all six apparatus at last month's World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Kitakyushu, Japan, but an injury to his elbow two months prior limited him to just three events (floor, vault, parallel bars).
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