28. Juli 2016  
Tokyo, JPN  
Artistic Gymnastics

Kohei UCHIMURA - the gymnast from another Planet

Six consecutive times he was the all-around world champion and he won the Olympic gold medal 2010 in London:
This is not merely a statistical record but the Japanese Kohei UCHIMURA acting on the gymnastic apparatus in technology and content manner like from another planet!
Ahead of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, superstar Kohei Uchimura and four other members of the Japan men’s gymnastics team got haircuts a few days ago. This wasn’t necessarily a sign of their spirited mood for competition at the global sporting festival, because it’s a little too premature for that. One day before their departure for South America, the five gymnasts looked pretty laid-back at a Tokyo news conference ...:

Japanese Olympic Men's Team of artistic gymnastics with new hair style ..: (- from left): Kenzo Shirai, Ryohei Kato, Kohei Uchimura, Yusuke Tanaka and Koji Yamamuro


Kohei UCHIMURA the defending Olympic individual all-around champion at the last press conference in Tokyo said: “I don’t really feel like we’re taking off (from Japan), and I’m calm and it makes me wonder if I’m really going to the Olympics.”
Making his third straight Summer Games appearance, however, the six-time all-around world champion knows how to prepare himself for the main event. “Once we get to the site, we are going to get excited more, so I’m not worried,”  said the 27-year-old Uchimura, who’s eager to capture the team gold in Rio, which would be the first for the Japan men’s squad since the 2004 Athens Games.

* A few weeks before the 2016 Olympic Games  the World Gymnastics Federation (FIG) provides him in a special video interview ...:
♦♦ Kohei UCHIMURA (JPN) - in Interview (Fig channel) ...:
 

 

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                      (source: japantimes)