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Uchimura is 32 and is going to the Olympics as a high bar specialist, though he is technically eligible to do all 6 events…
He tied with vaulter Hidenobu Yonekura in terms of qualification rules, but the tie was broken based on past world results. Frankly, i won’t miss Yonekura’s sloppy vault one bit. Glad King Kohei made it.
For the team, it’s 2 veterans and 2 upstarts. Tanigawa and Kaya are 24. Kaya has medaled a couple times at World and Tanigawa has been on a couple Japanese world teams. The other two guys are 18 and 19 years old. Daiki Hashimoto actually did well at Worlds last year, including a 4th on PH I think. Takeru Kitazono is the World Youth Olympic champion a couple years ago. They are a great team, but I am quite skeptical Japan could challenge for gold or silver against veteran Russian and Chinese stars, barring reeeeally bad days.
https://sports.yahoo.com/kohei-uchimura-japanese-gymnastics-legend-110354492.html
He tied with vaulter Hidenobu Yonekura in terms of qualification rules, but the tie was broken based on past world results. Frankly, i won’t miss Yonekura’s sloppy vault one bit. Glad King Kohei made it.
For the team, it’s 2 veterans and 2 upstarts. Tanigawa and Kaya are 24. Kaya has medaled a couple times at World and Tanigawa has been on a couple Japanese world teams. The other two guys are 18 and 19 years old. Daiki Hashimoto actually did well at Worlds last year, including a 4th on PH I think. Takeru Kitazono is the World Youth Olympic champion a couple years ago. They are a great team, but I am quite skeptical Japan could challenge for gold or silver against veteran Russian and Chinese stars, barring reeeeally bad days.
https://sports.yahoo.com/kohei-uchimura-japanese-gymnastics-legend-110354492.html