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Blog Roll: Albany's Nationally-Ranked Gymnast Recaps a Recent Mexico Competition
Did you know Albany has a gymnast on the USA Gymnastics team? Read a recent post from Sho Nakamori's blog about his team's October trip to Mexico for the Pan American Games. Learn more about Sho on his website, http://shonakamori.com.
[Editor's Note: Many thanks to Sho Nakamori for sharing this blog post with us. Nakamori graduated from in 2003, then went on to Stanford University, where he won a range of accolades for his athletic achievements in gymnastics. Learn more about him on his Facebook page.]
I apologize for not having updated my blog the entire time I was out in Guadalajara. Internet was super spotty so I barely had the opportunity to get online. I did try to update my twitter as much as possible so I hope you guys were at least able to follow me a bit through there. If you aren’t already following me on twitter, please go ahead and do that!
Anyway, after 10 long days in Mexico, I’m finally back in the US. I have to give a huge shout out to the U.S. Olympics Committee. They totally bent over backwards to accomodate us and make our stay as comfortable as possible but I have to admit that I’m totally glad to be back in the US. After spending some time out there, I realized that I’ve been taking a lot of things that we barely give second thought to for granted. I’ve learned to be more appreciative towards consistent internet access and hot water!
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Despite some tough situations, the trip turned out to be an awesome experience and I’m grateful that I had the opportunity to get back into the international scene after being out of it for over two years.
On the competition side, we made one too many errors as a team to be able to come off with the win (we ended up with the bronze). Clearly we were disappointed since our main goal was to win the gold but I know that all of us will take this experience back to our own gyms and use it to fuel our fire. I’ve already returned to my normal training and I’ve never been this pumped to get back in the gym!
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I honestly cannot thank the people around me enough for all the support you’ve given to me up to this point. This meet was especially significant to me because I was actually selected to the Pan Am team back in 2003, but never had the opportunity to actually compete because I had a major accident right before the competition. I’m incredibly glad to be back in action and to have had the opportunity to compete at Pan Ams again.
See several photographs from this trip on Sho's blog. Please share notable blogs with Albany, CA, connections with editor Emilie Raguso at emilier@patch.com.