Ahead of Paris Olympics, Gymnast “Flips” flips “Richard have goals larger than a gold medal in mindtrying to change the boys in gymnastics and show everyone exactly what the situation is.
On Friday, at USA Gymnastics Winter Cup and with a copper medal Under his belt, Richard debuted a new, habitual behavior of men to recognize, as he called it, “a modern-day shift in the uniform.
In the area of tight units and pants covering the gymnasts feet, Richard heals for a more comfortable tank of baskets boys like Pommel Horse, if their legs can sit in the closet .
Richard told an interview that he worked with a designer since Paris’s games “find all the points I hate having a joint product. Gymnastics – a girl gymnections company – to make and make uniform.
“It seems simple, but it’s kind of more comfortable feeling,” Richard said to the new look.
Later, Richard will launch a website that allows gyms around the country to customize and order uniforms for wearing their teams.
“The people of the flock later wear our jerseys, wear our uniforms, which are something you don’t see in gymnastics,” Richard said.
The new uniform comes at a cost for Richard on Friday: Three tenths of a point overpowered by all points – a punishment that can cause competition competition.
The national team has decided to winter cup, but Richard has a place as one of five members of the Genmysmys Genmysmy team at Parismpics Menym. They don’t have to compete again for their spots for another year, he said.
The new uniform is about Richard’s larger plan to bring gymnastics to men in Sports Zeitgeist.
“I feel it over the next four years for me, like, my arch of sport change,” says Richard. “Not only does the rules change or change the uniforms, but bring more eyes to the sport, with different athletes, with different people, with the eyes of gymnastics and tell my story. “
Growing up, Richard recalls “Feeling uncomfortable or shy to tell people that I’m the gymnastics” for many reasons, but the uniform is a big one.
He felt that he could no longer go to gasoline after practice not questioned why he was wearing a rash. He was shocked at him, “Why is it like this?” If styles have changed very well.
“There is no innocence within it, it’s no change,” Richard said.
So he jumps on the opportunity to make a change – for his younger brother and children who may have in a similar situation today.
“We have this Olympics. We have successes. It is a kind of feeling like the guys gymnastics with men,” Richard said. “Anything we want to change, let’s go.”
Luckily for Richard, many of the Gymnastics worlds responded to his innovation, especially fellow college gymnasts that he said to agree.
Richard hopes this uniform can give gymnasts at all ages and levels of another option that does not receive reduced points.
He said he saw a clear passage of college gymnastics, where team coaches could vote to change a rule. Richard says many of the college coaches he knows aboard.
Children’s gymnastics do not follow the same rule, so transition can occur faster, he said.
However, the trickier of the world’s stage, so Richard said he was talking to gymnastics officers with international gymnastics officers about uniforms.
He said they told him to wear a uniform in a meeting to show that it wasn’t just good good, and to see people again talking if this was the time of change. If it gets more traction, officials should vote for a final decision if it is allowed.
One gymnastics said it wasn’t an official comment but found that Richard was wearing how comfortable he was and removed international gymnastics federations, or figs as a result. Fig does not respond to a request for commentary on Richard’s uniform.
Richard was placed on the second all around the Winter Cup with a total score of 159.000, more than a full point behind the Riley Loos winner, scored 160.850.
Richard said he would be showing off the uniform at every individual meeting he attends as he works with turn to get their website launched and the official “Frederick flips” line out to the world. The next time, Richard said he hoped to see children and college students who were attracting his design matters.
“My dream is to walk to the La Olympics that can wear it,” Richard said.
