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Yulo seeks his best showing at Liverpool World Gymnastics

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Redeeming himself in his pet event in the coming FIG World Championships in Liverpool is one of the goals of Olympian Carlos Yulo.

Carlos Yulo

And he will have seven months to prepare for it as he joins two big international meets to get his acts together.

The 22-year-old Yulo said this on Friday, three days after returning home to Manila to visit his family and inaugurate a new gymnastics facility in Intramuros on Saturday, a day before he goes back to Japan.

“Gusto kong ibigay ang best ko. Binibigyan ko ng oras ang world championships sa October, sa darating na mga practices at competition. Ayoko matalo ulit dahil sa sarili ko,” said Yulo following an online huddle on Sports Radio.

Last November, Yulo finished with a gold and a silver medal at the end of his routines at the Japanet Artistic Gymnastics World Championships.

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Yulo grabbed a gold in the vault exercises and a silver in the parallel bars back then. But he did not finish in the podium in his favorite event, the men’s floor exercise, where he was expected to bag a medal.

He was still recovering from a left elbow injury sustained during practice three months at that time before the competition, but Yulo still remained focused.

Yulo, who is also getting ready for the Southeast Asian Games and the Asian Games, said he managed to train in the new gymnasium on Thursday.

“Nakapag-practice na po ako. Overall, OK naman po siya,” added Yulo, following his session with coach Munehiro Kugimiya.

Yulo has not returned home for more than two years due to COVID-19 lockdowns in Japan and travel restrictions in the Philippines.

FIG president Moranari Watanabe will join Yulo and Gymnastics Association of the Philippines president Cynthia Carrion-Norton in opening the new facility in Basco st., Intramuros.

Since last year, the GAP has been looking for a place where national athletes in gymnastics will be able to train, aside from what they have at the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex in Vito Cruz, Manila.

Carrion-Norton said Club Gymnastica in Pasig City has hosted the ongoing physical activities of the national pool since last year.

A new venue was needed by the GAP after the government tapped facilities that are under the care of the Philippine Sports Commission as quarantine areas for COVID-19 patients since March, 2020.

With government restrictions easing this month, many places inside the RMSC in the City of Manila, the Philsports Complex in Pasig City have been utilized by a limited number of athletes for training.

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