More Sport A week ago is that the American gymnast Katelyn Ohashi (21) won the internet with a perfect floor exercises. The praise flew to her ears, a perfect score followed and the smile returned. Her smile is Ohashi after a long time spent, as she tells in a gripping testimony to The Players’ Tribune .
During the Collegiate Challenge in the American Anaheim treated Katelyn Ohashi fans last week on a perfect exercise to a medley of Michael Jackson. Especially the way Ohashi (University of California, or UCLA) a couple of times, especially during her final, immediately knew to jump after a perfect split, it was punishment. Almost all of her colleagues on the sidelines danced along, and also to Ohashi itself dripped the pleasure of her face. Especially that last one was for the gymnast and her family are a breath of fresh air, because life is not always a bed of roses for the American.
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For they for UCLA came out, it was Ohashi a gymnast at the highest level. In the juniors she seemed, even more than Simone Biles, perhaps on the way to be the queen of gymnastics. But it was not to be. In an interview with The Players’ Tribune testifies Ohashi about her long struggle with her self-image, which are partly created by an incessant stream of haatreacties – especially about her appearance. Bodyshaming.
“There was a period in which I to the top of the world belonged. I was even dreaming of the Olympics and was basically unbeatable,… I that not more was,” says Ohashi, who then, in the third person about itself speaks. “The girl thought they all had the medals in her room, the podiums that they should enter. But fans told her that they are not good enough, that they there not in a certain way looked like. That girl wanted to junk food eat, without being guilty had to feel and should fear that they outside would be thrown because they are a certain skill not below the knee) would get.”
