PARIS (AP) - Frederick Richard understands it will take a lot for Americans to get involved in men’s gymnastics.
Frederick Richard thinks the U.S. men’s gymnastics team’s success at the Olympics is just the start
PARIS (AP) - Frederick Richard understands it will take a lot for Americans to get involved in men’s gymnastics.
It’s an uphill climb. A steep one at that. The 20-year-old who has made it his life’s mission to have people care about his chosen sport knows this only too well.
Yet there was a shift during his first trip to the Olympics. Richard could feel it.
It wasn’t just the bronze he helped the five-man U.S. team secure on Monday. It wasn’t just the spike in followers across his social media platforms, though that was certainly nice for the man behind " Frederick Flips. " It wasn’t just the overall sense of momentum inside a men’s program that had spent a decade running in place.