Aly Raisman Hopes To Compete in 2020 Olympics
— Olympic medalist Aly Raisman said she is planning to compete in the Summer Games in Tokyo in four years.
Raisman told talk show host Ellen DeGeneres on Wednesday that she plans to take a break before going back into training for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
“That’s the goal,” Raisman said. “I’m going to take off a little bit of time just because I think I need a little bit of a break. I took a full year off in 2012 and I’m going to do the same thing and then I’ll begin training again.”
She told DeGeneres that she keeps “getting better with age.”
“I thought I was in the best shape of my life in 2012, but it was even better now, so I’m excited to see what will happen in 2020,” she said.
Raisman, 22, the oldest member of the U.S. women’ gymnastics team, served as the team captain, and is nicknamed “Grandma” by her teammates.
Raisman appeared on the talk show wearing the three medals she achieved in last month’s Olympics: a gold medal in the women’s team all-around, a silver medal for the women’s floor exercise, and a silver medal in the women’s individual all around.
She won three medals in the 2012 summer Olympic Games in London: a gold medal in the women’s team all-around, a gold medal for the women’s floor exercise and a bronze medal for the balance beam.
A message from our CEO & publisher Rachel Fishman Feddersen
I hope you appreciated this article. Before you move on, I wanted to ask you to support the Forward’s award-winning journalism during our High Holiday Monthly Donor Drive.
If you’ve turned to the Forward in the past 12 months to better understand the world around you, we hope you will support us with a gift now. Your support has a direct impact, giving us the resources we need to report from Israel and around the U.S., across college campuses, and wherever there is news of importance to American Jews.
Make a monthly or one-time gift and support Jewish journalism throughout 5785. The first six months of your monthly gift will be matched for twice the investment in independent Jewish journalism.
— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO
