At age 16, Plano's Hezly Rivera is the youngest Team USA member at the Paris Olympics, now she can call herself an Olympic champion.
Hezly Rivera, the youngest Team USA member at the Paris Olympics, can now call herself an Olympic champion.
"This was such an amazing experience and just being with the team to support them meant the world to me," Rivera said just after receiving her gold medal."It was so surreal you know. My mind was everywhere. I am so happy to be here and this team has worked so hard."When Rivera sat down for an interview with NBC 5 in March, at her home gym of WOGA-Plano, she said it was her dream to go to an Olympics. She said she had been training her entire life for this moment.
“I could not have imagined that and I am just so excited and never would have thought that would have happened. Bars and beam are what I can contribute to the team. So when I hit bars and beam I knew that I had a shot,” Rivera said.“I am so grateful to be here and to be selected on this Olympic team. I have made so many sacrifices to get here so I want to thank God, my coaches, family, my friends and my teammates.
Her parents moved their family from New Jersey to Plano so that she could train at a world-class gym, because her parents said they believed in her that much.."What an amazing accomplishment. Making the team is the most important thing, but being the youngest athlete, that’s something and you can never take that away from her. It means the world.
He talked about the decision to move his family from New Jersey to Plano so Hezly could train at WOGA-Plano.Tennis
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