British gymnast Becky Downie’s Tokyo 2020 hopes nearly took a touch after a tragedy struck her household. However, the world silver medallist, was assured of a further chance by the nation’s gymanstic physique, who prolonged their assist to Downie and her household at this grieving hour.
Downie, who was scheduled to participate in UK’s remaining Olympic trials in Cardiff, was pressured to skip the occasion after the dying of her cricketer brother John, who handed away in the midst of a apply session.
The ladies’s Olympic choice course of has been prolonged.
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— British Gymnastics (@BritGymnastics) May 13, 2021
“We felt it important in such an unprecedented situation to take time to look at how we might be able to grant an extension to the selection window to allow for a further opportunity to complete the trial,” British Gymnastics stated in a press release on final week.
“In such difficult circumstances we feel strongly that this is the right thing to do,” it added.
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As per stories, Josh Downie collpased throughout a pratice session in Birkenhead, close to Liverpool, on May 6 and was later died due to a coronary heart assault in the identical night.
The stories talked about that Josh was one of many premier batsman of Burton Joyce, a cricket membership, who additionally held the report of accumulating the best particular person rating in its historical past. The cricketer had additionally featured for a number of different cricket golf equipment together with Hucknall CC, Fikserton & Thurgarton CC, and Burton Joyce CC in Nottinghamshire.
Meanwhile, Becky additionally devoted a publish to her late brother on social media, by which she described the section as the toughest three days of her life.
The hardest 3 days of my life however I didn’t come this far to solely come this far. I do know Josh would need me to take it so far as I might go & I owe it to myself to end what I began.
Doing it for us each pic.twitter.com/TwPHMfksp6— Becky Downie (@Bdownie) May 10, 2021
The 29-year-old has bagged a silver medal on the uneven bars. on the 2019 Stuttgart world championships.
