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Carlos Yulo sacrifices Christmas with his family to focus on Olympic gold
Joey Villar (Philstar.com) – December 20, 2020 – 3:05 pm
MANILA, Philippines – Carlos Yulo, who is heading to Tokyo, makes sure he is not distracted from his primary goal of handing out the country’s first Olympic gold medal in Tokyo next year.
That’s why the 20-year-old pocket-sized world champion gymnast is sacrificing spending Christmas with his family at home to stay focused on his training in Japan.
“Caloy wanted to come home for Christmas and I felt so bad for rejecting him, since it is the most concentrated he should be to win the gold medal at the Olympic Games,” the president of the Gymnastics Association of Philippines, Cynthia Carrion-Norton.
Carrion-Norton said Yulo is now the initial stage of his preparation for Tokyo, where he hopes to make a historic breakthrough.
“We have seven more months of focused training,” he said.
Yulo is now No. 1 in floor exercise in the recent world rankings and is aiming to be No. 2 in jumping.
And the Leveriza, Manila native is peaking at the right time after taking a pair of bronze medals in floor and jumping exercise at the 74th Japan Championships a week ago.
It was an improvement over a mere bronze medal effort at the 74th Championship in Japan last September.
How does it happen
LAST UPDATED: December 4, 2020 – 6:14 pm
Keep an eye on important updates as we follow developments at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
December 4, 2020 – 6:14 pm
The Tokyo Olympics delayed by the coronavirus will cost at least an additional $ 2.4 billion, organizers say, with the unprecedented postponement and a series of pandemic health measures that will inflate an already huge budget.
The additional costs come as officials work to build excitement for the first Games postponed in peacetime, insisting that the massive event can continue into next year even if the pandemic is not under control.
But higher spending, on top of the previous budget of around $ 13 billion, could further toughen public opinion in Japan, where this year’s polls showed most people think the Games should be postponed again or canceled together. . – AFP
November 29, 2020 – 12:09 pm
The Tokyo Olympics delayed by the coronavirus could cost $ 1.9 billion more than its original budget of $ 13 billion, an increase of 15%, says a report Sunday.
The organizers of the Olympics will formally decide on the budget increase for the Games in mid-December after communicating with the Japanese government and the host city of Tokyo, Yomiuri Shimbun reports, citing anonymous Olympic sources.
The 2020 Games were delayed a year when COVID-19 spread around the world, and is now scheduled to open on July 23, 2021. – AFP
October 24, 2020 – 6:33 pm
Olympic chief Thomas Bach warns against allowing the Games to “descend into a market of demonstrations” after criticism of a rule that prohibits protests by athletes.
The president of the International Olympic Committee has come under fire for the ruling, announced in a year in which athletes have widely supported the Black Lives Matter movement.
But Bach, who won a team fencing gold medal at the 1976 Olympics, said he had learned first-hand about the “political impotence of sport” when West Germany boycotted the 1980 Games by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. – AFP
October 20, 2020 – 3:08 pm
Organizers of the Tokyo Olympics say they were on constant alert for cyberattacks, but had not yet suffered a “significant shock” after Britain accused Russia of attacking the Games.
Britain’s Foreign Ministry said Russian spies targeted organizers, logistics services and sponsors of the 2020 Games before the event was postponed for a year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Tokyo 2020 officials say they had taken a number of countermeasures against digital attacks, but did not release details, citing security concerns. – AFP
October 7, 2020 – 9:14 pm
The cost of the Tokyo Olympics postponed by the coronavirus will be cut by $ 280 million, organizers said Wednesday, touting a smaller and less flashy Games, with cuts to everything from personnel to pyrotechnics.
But the event’s final cost, officially budgeted ahead of the pandemic at 1.3 trillion yen ($ 12 billion), remains unclear because the additional expenses caused by the postponement have yet to be made public. – AFP
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