Of all the intangible elements, which in turn sports, mastered the backward roll. What appears to be appropriate since the lady is already 44, and 44-no somersaults or screws, or to rotate both more. But you can – if you can. And Oksana when performing can.

Only she likes the role and also the Reverse. Already at least four times the another Uzbek, declared her career over, but each Time she came to the decision back. She did gymnastics after the birth of a son, Alisher, in the year 1999 as well as after the 2009 world Championships, London 2012 and Rio 2016. At that time, in Brazil, announced that they are still in the Mixed Zone to journalists: “Now it’s time that I dedicate myself to my coach.”

And? She didn’t of course. Although when performing worked occasionally as a national trainer in the performance center of the Uzbek Association. But in addition, they pushed on undeterred, her career. And as recently at the world Championships in Stuttgart all of the results, it was clear: when performing managed the qualification for Tokyo 2020 – despite a drop of your parade unit jump. So you will be riding in the upcoming summer of their eighth Olympic games best. As only the fourth woman – and the first gymnast. The Bulgarian Jordan Jowtschew is attended with six men, the record holder.

But now? On Sunday when performing, said the Russian news Agency Itar-Tass: “Tokyo will be my last Olympic games. Final. After that, I will end my active career in the Sport, however as a trainer to remain faithful.” And she made it clear she does not want to be in Tokyo just part of it. “I want to win in the jump a medal and aggravating my Repertoire.”

The workload increases

The qualification process was very hard, she said. This was also due to a mode change in the last few years, because in the end, more fighters were internal to the Device specialists before sharing. When performing adjusted so your workload to be able to make it to all the devices with the competitors. With opponents, of whom the youngest are 16.

When she was 16, denied when performing in Indianapolis, their first world Cup. That was in 1991, and a different time. Nor is it the Soviet Union, and the Russians (and the US) were in the gymnastics the measure of all things. Jump was about a buck, and the ground was poorly feathered. The turn fled from Bukhara, barely 1.50 meters tall, won with the Team and on the ground Gold.

in 1992 was the Olympic victory with the Team – now there was the Soviet Union, the Russian athletes started in Barcelona in the community of independent States. And two years later, Giulia Steingruber came in Gossau to the world. Since the 2011 European Championships, both gymnastics together and against each other. Since the title fight Steingruber shows also the of when performing invented jump with the same name. The Swiss has him perfected.

“she is incredible, I have huge respect for her,” says stone, Gruber. The Ostschweizerin self-lock, to do gymnastics with 30 or even 40, but With 25 counts already to the older Generation. And already the signs that Steingruber will at least make up for EM 2021 in Basel to further condense.

“gymnastics keeps me young. I have every single Training and every Competition Fun.”Oksana when performing

but how did he, of this ambition, the fine link comes membered another Uzbek, to want to it also increasing age, again and again, to know? On the one hand, it permits your physique, “she is biologically and genetically perfect predisposed to be able to a long time gymnastics,” says Ulla Koch. The German national coach had received trained when performing for a decade, as these lived in Germany, in 2006, the citizenship and to 2012 for the German gymnastics Federation began. As a German, she won in 2008, her second Olympic medal: a silver in jump.

on the Other hand, has to do with your long career with a lot of the son Alisher to – and this is the guest performance in Germany. Because in 2002, when performing had come for him to Cologne, because only in the local University hospital, the leukemia disease, the then 3-year-old boy treated could be.

German gymnastics friends arranged for Alisher a Fund, and when performing for the first time, their withdrawal from the withdrawal, with the turn team in Cologne, national and international competitions to compete and fight, and earn prize money for Alishers treatment. “If I don’t exercise, can’t live with my son. As simple as that. I dedicate every victory,” she said once. Today, the son is healthy, 20, lives in Germany and makes high school.

heart

But it would be gone only to Alisher, would be able to stop when performing a long time ago. Instead, it was (or is) to the Olympic Evergreen, with a span of almost 30 years. “Gymnastics is something I do because I love this Sport with all my heart,” she said at the world Cup in Stuttgart, and added: “The gymnastics keeps me young. The gym is my fitness center. I’ve been at every single training session and every Competition Fun.”

This may well believe, who wants to, because, as she says, moreover, addressed on the niggles of everyday life beyond the 40? “It hurts here and there, from aperture, I just.” Your Training volume has been adjusted when performing, however, you stand a maximum of 2.5 hours in the hall, but still, six days per week.

you do not Need to with 44. But you can. If you can.

Created: 28.10.2019, 22:18 PM