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.
Comments