armenian gymnastics icons who is still competing at the highest level. thank you for watching. the one of mankind's oldest ambitions could be within reach. what do you see? it really is possible to reverse the researchers and scientists all over the world for in a race against time. they are peers and arrival

with one daring goals to help smart nature. the more likes watching it on youtube dw documentary, the, it's one of the most challenging, gymnastics disciplines, the pommel horse and he's among the best in the world. the armenian hubbard. tune medina on and professional gymnastics times. he's a senior citizen, but he's simply cannot stop. you know media gymnastics is moving to schools, it teaches boys and discipline. it's a symbol of resilience with his repeatedly threatened nation. and it means fighting against all odds. stephen old age

the temple awesome your age has nothing to do with your physical conditions. come on. i don't even want to think about when i will stop it soon, as long as my health and my body allowance and as long as i mentally capable to put this strain on myself and i'll, i will continue training. it's con mazda, available since childhood. how did you and has that coach so sexy on at his side? thought it keeps the thought on lots of land, even as a kid, he was highly talent series or on many fearful dunk, although it was always so motivated in training and quick to pick things out. well, 5. so training him gives me great pleasure to this day, only my monuments hydrate headed to the lips and amelia, the country, and the southern crocuses region which is still being threatened and attacked even now around

a set of allow means to live in the capital city. yet have been working, jazz, district of nor key massif isn't the north of the city. and it's soviet era prefab buildings. it's the relaxed and frenzy atlas van. this is where headed to and met the lives with his wife, daughter and parents in a small house with a gun sided with all at the age of 20. i move to and i never looked back mossey. we loved this area a lot to me and showed us that i like it quiet and massive is a very quiet place. i looked a little bit of all through my shots hungry stuff. how did you imagine john is practical and tumble, which is evident in his daily schedule. calling for as long as i can remember, it's been the same routine. i wake up in the morning, eat breakfast. no after showering i have to training in the gym needs to stay there

until 2 30 pm off at the dolphin. that is set in stone for over 30 years. nice. it's often. yeah, it'd be, yeah, this one, it's all the audio the, the gym is just a few. columbus is outside of yet. yvonne send to the it's a rhetoric of sylvia times that a scene best today. the gym is named off to the most famous a full armenian to miss all this other young. on the 1000, in that as a 3 time a limited champion, was heavy and is unmatched. to this day, they can be the legend and the big idols of mine's mission. i always tried to follow in his footsteps and opened them on the desktop. in early september 2023 azaria and died. h 94. but he went to the gym to just before his death, the income will gladly meet,

but it was often here to watch his train. it was very motivating. she also gave us, on lots of good advice for that is totally shut the all sport by the in the soviet era. the armenians with the most successful gymnast at the olympic games to this day is the source of much pride here. portable jump on the mo, your muscles have to be completely warmed up if it causes most injuries sustained when you're on properly warmed up. the hands at mcdonough then logics, custom, a little charlie news off to the us. it's time to start in the 1st half of his career. how did you in competing in 6 different gymnastics disciplines, but in the last few years,

he has focused exclusively on the public. beyond this, on the top of you need a special relationship to the correct uh you look on them. pamela horse is one of the trickiest disciplines in june asked us most accidentally sent to them that it takes a color on the promos itself. it no, it can be treacherous to go so, you know, but so you have to get a feel for it. either i can do that to her. so it's got the nation with ned. you months? thoughts from the readable offers one of these 2 groups. so the biggest challenge of everything that goes through them, but who tablet? i mean, as long as the most people can't even hold that body, that it's all going to change and especially not swing around on then go to that.

i'm letting the donkey. i'll tell you what i've left, so let me show up and the size of the, or made small sauce of duncan's if katy sharing that single minutes of performance in a competition on your whole body is on the 10 sites all on both to almost small. i mean that the majority of the work is done by your home, that of all, that the entire body works alongside the heat. but he decided to incorporate the abdominal and the leg muscles meet the even the souls. if your feet must be 10, all at middle bay, the hot, lots of years of training, go into the body, singling outside, unless incom, both the mom and the son michel get that training pays off. how did you in is among the best in the world on the pommel, who was the

the 1st big success came in 2011 when he won the bronze measure of the european championships and by late in the afternoon, then more followed the maturity and champion twice was i'm once he becomes is that the world championships, so kind of like gosh, probably better than the likely only at the olympics has that are to and medina and failed to win a medal. he got close at the games in 2016 when he finished full, full use. they said he was already $35.00 and the mistake and the preliminary rounds custom spots. and the final, the national are sparkle, get over to your, to i finished just the 7th and the end school shot shot, the bonus. what followed was really tough time was down for several months of golden corral and so with the pole it deem hallmark. now since then,

a limb pick metal has always been my great go on bush and i thought that this guy will call the one i made done about him. but then his story, it was full and everything changed. the almost donald said don't on the 1000. and once i got married, so my wife and we had my daughter knew i felt a brand new energy to me was over. that's the to all the way in all my novel. i was very motivated to show my family that i was still a top athlete when metals, yes. to give the commodity again, come move, she get the made the nevada involved. but we're the house number one here they to 100 to in was sensationally crowned european champion once again at the age of 38.

when i became a european champion, i put my metal on to my daughter's neck and gifted into the v that seed on it. it was unbelievable on top of that, i had never experienced feelings around the house in scottsdale, with so many more gone home, cheer clinic from the in the afternoon, children and teenagers come to the ocean as soon as headed to in has finished his training program. he transitions into is relatively new coaching the kids the

economy saw the other quotes and then yeah, i started a few years ago about some i still feel like a propane of as such, a train as he can do stuff. so to me, poor could sport. think it's not easy being a top athletes and simultaneously and coaching modest each box and much isaac, combined to to load them and bite sports. and hallmark that right now i am training to really gifted kids, make it. they also take part in competitions. a vote on said mazda of a man even takes time out to coach the kids on the weekend, accompanying them to competitions like the medium youth championships in the small city of barnett. but the future has medicaid for these aspiring updates since 2020, and on conflict with neighboring country as of, as john has flared up again, the smaller armenian nation struggles defend off its logic counterparts.

the country feels like the international community is not supporting and not feeling familiar to a medians for centuries. now the, the competition goes well, so it had a chance. pupils one wins goals. the advocates of drugs see to me, i mean school thought to the i loved my thoughts on on them. i hope that one day i can mental another. all the 2 months is cheapest. yes. well, that would be a massive dream come true for me, but the last time that i was on campus, we've gone up the dream to finally live in a free and safe country is not something he wants to talk about. what is left is to do what he's always done. gymnastics also is all the we don't know, but he still feels good and that seems to be kind of stop. yes. and so the coach is

often ask him about him having you had enough at this age with all your injuries on, but it doesn't bother him in golf course. are the thing off. i am a good example, but you should never give up. you'll support arlington. the task this both the face, they know if it is always possible to continue training all the models of and if you didn't get good results at 230 east, maybe it'll happen to you with 33 and the some data that's on monday hunter to imagine yon will stop, but his message willing to tell me it is a small but strong nation, the . the view will tell you. we are happy that we are boxing

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