Monday, January 26, 2015

Team Germany: How are they doing?

   As we know, Team Germany has suffered a major loss, at least in my opinion. And that is loss of the legendary Oksana Chusovitina. Oksana is known for her age, and great vaulting. Oksana Chusovitina is trying for Rio, like every age-eligible elite gymnast in the world, but the thing that differentiates her the most? She will be 41 YEARS OLD! 41??!!!! That is considered ancient in the sport of gymnastics. It is a great accomplishment, not to mention that she set many records in the sport: Getting a vault named after her, becoming one of the only gymnasts to come back after child birth,  and of course, still being a gymnast at 40! Anyway, so with Oksana moving back to Uzbekistan and competing for them, this is considered a blow for Team Germany because of the seasoned gymnast that they lost. Oksana left Germany after London, and sadly, this will mean that Team Germany will lose that great gymnast, and role model for the younger ones, but their gymnastics program isn't totally in the toilet because of some promising juniors that are turning senior before or of the year of 2016, making them age eligible for Rio 2016. But they did lose a great athlete.

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