Olympic Gymnastics Kohei Uchimura "The feel of the horizontal bar was very good."

At the Tokyo Olympics, Japanese gymnastics athletes practiced at the actual competition venue, and Kohei Uchimura, who is aiming for the gold medal for the third consecutive tournament, confirmed the feel of the horizontal bar.

In Japan, four men from the Tokyo Olympics gymnastics team and two representatives from each event will participate, for a total of six people.

The athletes practiced for about two and a half hours at the Ariake Gymnastics Center on the 21st.

Of these, Uchimura, who won the gold medal for the second consecutive tournament in the all-around and will participate in the horizontal bar for each event this time, grabbed the bar to check the feel of the horizontal bar, and when he grabbed the bar He made good adjustments, such as deciding "Schneider".

In addition, 19-year-old Daiki Hashimoto, who won the All Japan Championship and the NHK Cup this year and participated in the group, performed pommel horses and vaulting horses, and confirmed the atmosphere of the actual venue for the first Olympics.

The men's qualifying will take place on the 24th of this month.

Uchimura "I've done a lot of things to check."

After practicing, Kohei Uchimura said, "The feel of the horizontal bar was very good. I was able to grab the three hand-release techniques I wanted to check in a good position, so I feel that I was able to do a lot of things to check. I looked back.

On the other hand, he said that he made a mistake in another technique, "I was always careful because I never failed. I want to be careful in every technique in the actual production." did.

On top of that, "First of all, qualifying is really important. Unlike the All Japan Championship, there is a period between qualifying and the final, so if you think that you will play two important games, and if you can put in a feeling like the final for both. I think it's good. I want to get into myself without being distracted in the qualifying and the final. "

He also said about the representative players of the group, "The four members of the group are the first Olympics, but the flow was good from the first parallel bars."

Daiki Hashimoto "I was a little nervous about the atmosphere of the venue."

Daiki Hashimoto said, "It's a frank impression that I was a little nervous about the atmosphere of the venue. I made some mistakes in the practice, but I was calm and I was able to do the 6th event without any injuries. Based on that, I want to work toward the actual production. "