New Orleans – Hijli Riviera was a fresh face a year ago. The newcomer. The 20-Quare a team of Olympic gymnasts is trying its best to absorb a teenager, Simon Biles, Sanisa Lee, Z Kerry and Jordan Chiles.
One thing that was standing outside, even sometimes more than other gymnastics, the way his fellow gold-foot winning team fellow went about their business.
“He was full of confidence,” said Riviera. “They are liking, ‘I’m going out and I am going to hit.” It also gave me that confidence. ,
looks like it.
Now the 17-year-old, who says that she is not paying any attention to the idea that she is the leader of the women’s program in the early stages of the 2028 Olympics run-up, of course this part is seen.
Inspired by a polish stability – and a beam routine that finally does this at her home gym in Texas – Riviera won her first national title at the US Championship on Sunday night. In October, a two-day total of 112,000 was 112,000 good to overcome a challenge from Lean Wong to lead a four-woman American delegation at the World Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Riviera, the youngest member of the five-women team, ending above the podium in Paris a year ago, bounced back from an unstable performance in the US Classic last month, with the kind of measured, sophisticated gymnastics, he can only feel as a loan Olympic gold medal winner in a young field.
“No matter how thick the competition is, I can still come back to the gym and work hard because before all those months I am working hard, I know it is finally going to show,” he said. “So it just took a weight from my shoulders.”
Riviera, very at least, closed a place in the World Championship Selection Camp next month. So Wong was a four-time World Championship medalist, budding entrepreneurs and pre-made students, despite the years of competition in the college and not to shown any signs of slowing down on the elite level.
Asked how she does all this, the 21 -year -old man who insists that she does not keep a planner, she said that she lives with the motto “is the time for everything.”
In the last summer, an Olympic Roberson, an Olympic Roberson, shook the ankle injury to the third place at the end of the routine of his floor, as the three most internationally experienced athletes in the field appeared to be ready to lead after spending the final Olympic quad learning from Bills & Company.
19 -year -old Roberson said, “Go from you, ‘Oh, you are very young, you are very small,’, ‘Oh, you are the elder child,” said 19 -year -old Roberson. “People say, ‘How are you feeling?” For example, I do not feel it differently. ,
Two summer earlier, Roberson Biles was sides. Now he is one of the leaders of the next wave.
“I felt that small, small, less experienced children know that it is not the end of the day, if you have a bad day or if you had a fall,” Roberson said. “I want to help them grow instead of thinking, ‘I want to be perfect.” ,
Roberson then walked. Or maybe the lame was launched. She appeared ready to create a three-female race for the first, until she changed the ankle on the last tambaling pass of her floor routine.
The growing sophomore in Arkansas continued anyway. He grinded his way through his vault, although a 0.5-point deduction to use an additional pad to protect him excluded him from the controversy for all-around.
Nevertheless, the victory hardly became easier for Riviera. He was pushed through four winds by Wong, which started on Sunday with a stuck cheng vault and did not trust during two hours.
Riviera replied every time -he posted top scores on three of the four incidents -but it was not until he walked out of the podium after the routine of his floor, so that he could rest.
“Everything fell into the place,” Riviera said. “I tried to not be overwhelmed because the veins can be clearly, especially when you know that you are in a place to win a national title, but I just put all the pressure on myself.”
Sky Blackley, who was injured in the Olympic trials in both 2021 and 2024, both were sublime on both uneven bars and balance beams, who kept themselves in mind to make the world team.
