Carlos Yulo faces busy schedule en route to Olympic bid
Carlos Yulo talks to the media after the disclosing of the brand new coaching heart for grassroots gymnastics by the Japanese authorities. –ROMMEL FUERTES Carlos Yulo is preparing for the Southeast Asian Games in May and the Asian Artistic Gymnastic Championships in Singapore in June. He is also attempting to extend his successful run within the fourth and final leg of the FIG Artistic gymnastics World Cup Series in Cairo, Egypt. Yulo recently won gold in the Baku and Singapore respectively, but is yet to make it to the world’s largest sporting stage after a letdown in Tokyo. He plans to compete in Antwerp, Belgium for the World Championships in the final quarter of the yr, but may have to put all engines on blast when he competes.
Published : 2 days ago by Newton in Sports
MANILA, Philippines—Carlos Yulo is bracing for a tricky schedule this yr, which incorporates the Southeast Asian Games in May, within the lead-up to his bid to qualify for the Olympics anew.
Yulo might be headlining the Philippines pool for the lads’s creative gymnastics occasion within the biennial regional meet in Cambodia. He might be joined by John Decena, Justin Ace De Leon, Migs Besana, Christian Santillan and Ivan Cruz within the males’s staff.
But earlier than he will get to defend his titles within the SEA Games, Yulo will attempt to lengthen his successful run within the fourth and final leg of the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup Series in Cairo, Egypt occurring subsequent month.
Yulo additionally compete within the Asian Artistic Gymnastic Championships in Singapore in June.
“[I’m] simply doing preparations, identical to different competitions however these are exhausting ones as a result of I would like to attain the targets I set for myself after the Tokyo Olympics,” mentioned Yulo, who’s recent from successful the lads’s vault gold within the Baku leg of the World Cup final week.
Yulo is nothing however decided to make it again to the world’s largest sporting stage after a letdown in Tokyo, the place he failed to make to the ultimate of flooring train–the place he was then world champion–and got here up wanting a medal in vault.
“It’s exhausting to cling with the Olympians and world-type medalists and champions. Showing up there [in Tokyo], I used to be scared as a result of I educated with these medalists within the coaching podium and precise competitors corridor,” Yulo mentioned.
“I felt shy having to compete in opposition to them however reaching the Finals, I used to be in a position to show to myself that I belong with these folks as effectively.”
Yulo, who was in attendance for the disclosing of the new coaching heart for grassroots gymnastics at Rizal Memorial Sports Complex , mentioned he’s continuously engaged on his method and routines. In truth, there received’t be any break for him whereas he’s again house in Manila.
“My flooring [exercises] are slowly being made, in rings, quality-wise, I’m okay. I may do fundamentals already within the vault, however I’m having difficulties with the excessive bar. Highbar is the one I’m having difficulties with proper now.”
In the final quarter of the yr, Yulo may have to put all engines on blast when he competes in Antwerp, Belgium for the World Championships.
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