Netherlands Olympic gymnastics team training hard in Dubai ahead of Tokyo 2020

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Members of Team Netherlands gymnastics squad have gold on their mind as they continued sustained preparations at the Fly High Fitness facility in Dubai.  Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3sqs6Gt  Subscribe to Gulf News on YouTube and watch more of our videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/GulfNewsTV  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  #UAEnews #Sports #Dubai

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00:00I'm the person that planned and designed and created this place and also because of the

00:14many years of my competing internationally and being part of the international world

00:21of gymnastics, I made a lot of contacts with a lot of people and now I'm trying to use

00:29all that expertise and knowledge to bring people from around the world to this place.

00:35This was our dream, our vision from the beginning to create a place that's not just for Dubai,

00:44that it creates a place that brings people from all over the world, a world class facility.

00:50We had the British gymnastics here a few weeks ago and now we have the Dutch gymnastics team.

00:57We tend to train here for 10 days, our short-term focus is to start the build-up to the European

01:08Championships at the end of April and then the build-through to the Olympic Games.

01:15I already saw some videos from the other gymnasts like from England and stuff from Great Britain

01:20so we're really excited to come here. We knew that the gym was really good so that's why we're here.

01:28Also with Covid and all that stuff going on, this place is still open so that's

01:33really pleased to be here and it's just really cool, it's really nice.

01:38It's pretty hard to train with Covid because you never know what will happen, but it's still like

01:46I have to train so much every time that if a World Cup will be postponed it's not a big

01:56problem because I'm training for the ultimate goal and that's the Olympics later.

02:00I always said I want to go to the Olympics and still have that dream,

02:04but it always felt like it was something that couldn't be missed in my career, but now when I

02:09look back at all the things that I already accomplished, I just want to have as much fun as I can.

02:15Now if we're here with the team, we're working so hard and everybody is pushing each other,

02:20it's so much fun. I feel really happy and I miss that because we didn't do training

02:26camps or competitions for over a year of course and it feels really good to be back in real gymnastics.

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