![]() ![]() It’s something that I wasn’t fully aware of and didn’t fully appreciate, especially when I was first blind. Snyder: Global Accessibility Day is really critically important for me. OlympicTalk: How important is Global Accessibility Awareness Day to you, and what does accessibility and representation mean to you? *This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Officer, who lost vision in both eyes while deployed in Afghanistan, discusses his experiences with accessibility, the everyday challenges of vision loss, how his sense of identity evolved, why the Paralympic Movement is so special and whether he will bid for a fourth Paralympics in 2024. Brad Snyder, an eight-time Paralympic medalist between swimming and triathlon and former U.S. ![]() Favorite us! Follow marks the 12th Global Accessibility Awareness Day, a catalyst in the conversation for digital access and inclusion for people with disabilities. has finished between third and fifth at every Olympics and worlds since 2007 and has competed in the Olympic men’s team event at every Games since World War I, save the boycotted 1980 Moscow Games. gymnast to compete on all six apparatuses in the team final. finished fifth at worlds with Malone, who was the lone U.S. men’s team must finish in the top 12 at this fall’s world championships to qualify a full team for next year’s Olympics (assuming the already qualified China, Japan and Great Britain are also in the top 12). And Donnell Whittenburg, a 2016 Olympic alternate, who was second to Malone at last year’s nationals. men’s all-arounders include Asher Hong, who was sixth at worlds, becoming at 18 the second-youngest man from any nation to finish that high since 2001. all-around title in 20, succeeding the since-retired Sam Mikulak as the top American male gymnast.Īt the 2022 Worlds, Malone won the high bar title and placed fourth in the all-around, matching the best all-around finish for an American man since Jonathan Horton‘s bronze in 2010.Īfter Malone, the top U.S. ![]() Malone is likely to compete on no more than four of the six apparatuses at the Olympic Trials and, should he make the team, the Paris Games, because he does not expect to be ready for vault and floor exercise landings. He is planning to get a third and hopefully final surgery in July, after which he could return to doing landings on some events around January. ![]() Malone on Wednesday confirmed details reported by Gymnastics Now - that he suffered a tibial plateau fracture, a partially torn PCL and a fully torn LCL on a high bar dismount fall at a March 18 competition in Germany. Favorite us! Follow all-around gymnastics champion Brody Malone plans to return from three right leg surgeries to full routines around next April ahead of the Olympic Trials, which are usually in late June. Olympic female indoor volleyball player after program record five-time Olympian Danielle Scott-Arruda, according to. If Larson goes for a fourth Olympics, she can become the second-oldest U.S. Without Larson, the national team placed fourth at last fall’s quadrennial world championship. Larson continued to play club volleyball after Tokyo in China and Italy. “In general, I guess I’d say she is surprised at how much she is still enjoying this game and surprised at how good her body is still feeling after having played for quite a number of years.” “Jordan had a certain life path planned out, mapped out, and then some things changed, and so her life took a couple of unexpected turns, which led her to kind of reassess things. “She is on our roster for VNL in terms of eligibility,” Kiraly said, referencing the volleyball nations league, which begins May 30 and runs at various times through mid-July final rounds in Texas. head coach Karch Kiraly said in a video interview published Thursday that Larson “will be in our gym.” I have been blessed to do what I love for a very long time and still have a passion for it.” “I would want nothing more than to have a family,” she tweeted Thursday. Getting married, having children, those kinds of things.” She said in March 2020 that she planned an international retirement for after the Tokyo Games in 2021 for “other endeavors in my life that I want to see. Larson, 36, competed at the last three Olympics, winning a medal of every color. to its first Olympic women’s volleyball title as tournament MVP, is returning to the national team for the first time since the Games. Jordan Larson, who in Tokyo captained the U.S. ![]()
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