With banner headlines and explosions of confetti on the Internet, a Japan saddened last weekend by the abrupt end of one gymnastic king's storied ...
Hashimoto, who grew up just east of Tokyo, followed two older brothers into gymnastics, tagging along with them to their training club and repeatedly begging to be taught.
The coach told him to wait until he was older, but finally had to give in because Hashimoto would play on the equipment and cut across in front of the vault table as people were preparing to run. His formal training started at six.The gym was at a disused school with equipment passed down from other clubs and the rings suspended from the basketball backboard, Japanese media said.
"Uchimura was amazing, but this kid has gone him one better by winning gold," wrote one reader on Yahoo Japan."A new era, a new generation!" But the focus of the attention is shrugging it off in a way likely to endear him even more to people in a nation that praises modesty. "His heir? Well, we need to take what Uchimura left us, better it, and take Japanese gymnastics even further," Hashimoto told reporters after his win.Catch the Olympics Games Tokyo 2020 LIVE with 14 dedicated channels on meWATCH. Sign in now at
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