Rifda Irfanaluthfi is the first Indonesian gymnast to qualify for the Olympics, let alone the first woman, and her mind is set on reaching Paris fully fit so she can etch her name into gymnastics legend at home.
Rifda, I am rooting for you to impress the world at the Olympics! Please remember: you're an amazing gymnast with so much talent and you've done so many amazing things. Your hard work was all worth it. I'm so happy that you get a chance to represent Indonesia! When I watch the Olympics this summer, I'll cheer for you!! Semangat!!
So no westernized country could not connect with them and support them through a sports exchange program or through one of International gymnastics organizations to train with an established gymnastics team.
@@midnightmiracle79 It is a muslim country. It is necessary. It is an ever present risk. A neighboring muslim country roasted their own muslim gymnast on social media for many years despite all the medals she achieved for the country at the international level. And that included comments at governmental levels. My comment was to wish her well and all the best. Any problem with that?
This video seems to come straight out of the 1990s - it's no longer common for gymnasts to train at a "national training center" - and that was never common across the board, it was more of a communist country thing to have all the top gymnasts at one training center. And it's also no longer common for top gymnasts to miss so much school, especially at a very young age. Back in the 1990s it was common for elite (top) gymnasts to be homeschooled or go to government schools that let them do a lot of self-study (depending on the country), but with the increased age minimums for international competition, a lot of that pressure has been removed from very young gymnasts, so they can have a more normal school experience. Obviously, that's a generalization, considering how many athletes there are across multiple countries, but even so, attending elementary school only twice a week is not as typical as it used to be. Regardless, it is great that she's able to bring a bit more of a spot light on the sport in her country.
Depends on where you live! In countries in which gymnastics is not that popular and common there are usually very limited options for training, just as explained in this video. In my country usually there are no gyms for gymnastics only. Maybe one or two in the very big cities. Gyms over here are more like highschool gyms, many sports share the same gym during the week and everything has to be put back into the storage room afterwards. So you can not have foam pits, tumble tracks etc. and the equipment often is quite old. Also time is limited. Those good training options are only available at national olympic training facilities and you have to be picked at quite a young age to be able to go there. They also offer a special school there to fit training sessions and school lessons into the day (so yes, school is important, I agree on that one). I think all our national team gymnasts train at only two different national olympic facilities. But there are countries in which gymnastics is very uncommon and therefore you can't train it anywhere but national training facilities or even have to go abroad. So yes, it is still common in other countries! :)
If you do not understand the circumstances of disadvantaged countries, please do not comment. For people there to reach this level requires 10 times more personal sacrifices and perseverance than a western kid.
@@csking6377 😂 I never said it doesn't. I could say to you that if you don't understand English well enough to comprehend what you're reading, then don't comment. Saying that it's uncommon nowadays to have _national training centers_ is not the same thing as saying that "disadvantaged" countries have access to multiple great gymnastics facilities. I know they don't. What you apparently don't know is that a national training center is a gym that is owned or run by the government. Or if you really want to stretch the meaning of the word, you might include facilities that are rented by the sport's governing body. National training centers used to be common in communist countries where they would scoop up athletes from various parts of the country as children and send them to those facilities to train. Each country may only have one or two national training centers - and _again_ it's _owned and run_ by the government. If a country has such a poor gymnastics program that they have never even sent a gymnast to the Olympics before, then it's highly unlikely that they actually have a national training center. Most likely, the wrong English word is being used and they really just mean to say they only have one facility that has enough space and modern equipment to train high level gymnastics. That's completely different than an actual national training center.
@@MTGPSE The onus is on you to write for people to understand. The onus is not on the reader to try and decipher what you wrote. Long rambling sentences never score good marks in essay writing. I know what national training centers are. And where did you get the idea that national training centers are more "a communist country thing' and that it's "uncommon" nowadays? Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand all have national training centers for various selected sports. Last I check, these are very democratic countries. So, gymnastics is not yet on the "menu" for Indonesia national sports centers but it soon might be with the efforts of this girl. But gymnastics is certainly on the "menu" at the national sports centers of Malaysia, Singapore and Philippines.
@@csking6377 “Various selected sports” is completely outside the scope of the discussion. Whether a country has or doesn’t have a national training center for football or swimming is irrelevant when the topic is the downward trend of national training center usage _in gymnastics._ Your inability to understand and stay within the confines of the scope of discussion is quite embarrassing for you, especially after you admitted to struggling to understand long sentences. The fact that there are a handful of national training centers around the world does not negate the fact that the trend is moving away from that model. I never claimed that there were no national training centers for gymnastics left in the world. You know another thing I never claimed? I never claimed that athletes from less developed nations train any less hard than athletes from countries with a more developed presence in gymnastics, nor did I claim that they have or should have access to all the same facilities that gymnasts in other nations have access to. Everything that you’re getting infuriated over is in your little imagination.
