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Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Jonathan Horton! June 20, 2009, Van Alstyne, Texas. Photo Courtesy: Jenn Cappuzzo.
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The 2009 Japan
Cup will take place July 18-20 in Chiba City. The event will feature individual and international team competition with teams from the U.S., Australia, China, Japan, Germany, Russia and Korea. It will be the first team competition under the new 5-3-3 system. According to the event’s website, the following U.S. National Team members will be participating:

* Jonathan Horton
* Steve Legendre
* Tim McNeill
* Sho Nakamori
* Danell Leyva

This will be an excellent tune-up for our guys, who will be competing at VISAs a month later in Dallas. The competition will be fierce with plenty of Olympians like Japan’s Kohei Uchimura and Germany’s Fabian Hambuchen in the mix.

Official Japan Cup link

Today Jonathan Horton and Haley Deprospero were married in Dallas!
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Jonathan Horton is used to having a jam-packed schedule.

This, though, is a little much.

The Olympic silver medal gymnast just graduated from Oklahoma and moved back to his hometown of Houston. He and fiancee Haley DeProspero are wrapping up last-minute details for their June 20 wedding, and are looking for a house.

Oh, yeah, he’s trying to fit in training for this year’s national and world championships, too.

“It’s really stressing me out, knowing I’ll work out one day and then I’ll have a day off. This is a sport you can’t do that,” he said. “You have to be in gym six days with one day off. It’s just been impossible.

“I can’t wait to just finally have a schedule and follow it and not worry about a million other things going on.&rduo;

That time will come soon enough. After a honeymoon, Horton’s whole focus will be on gymnastics again and the routines he hopes will establish him as a contender for 2012.

Olympic gold medalist Yang Wei and Hiroyuki Tomita, winners of the last three world all-around titles, both retired after the Beijing Games, clearing the way for a new generation. Horton, who was fourth at the 2007 worlds and the silver medalist on high bar in Beijing, figures to be among the new top guys, along with Japan’s Kohei Uchimura, Germany’s Fabian Hambuechen and Britain’s Daniel Keatings.

“Is it going to be my time? I feel like yeah, it can be,” said Horton, who led the U.S. men to a bronze medal in Beijing despite losing Paul Hamm and his twin brother, Morgan, to injuries.

“It’s going to come quick. I feel like this is my opportunity to make the biggest impact I can in the sport.”

The national championships are Aug. 12-15 in Dallas, and worlds are Oct. 13-18 in London.

Though Horton hasn’t been able to train as much as he’d like, he is already working on some new skills. He’s also been putting in a lot of time on pommel horse, where a low score—a 13.675—helped cost him an all-around medal in Beijing.

Horton isn’t expecting to be a medal contender on horse. But if he can get his score into the high 14s by 2012, he could have a “ridiculously high&rduo; total in the all-around.

“My goal is to see a gigantic transformation in 2010,&rduo; he said. “If I didn’t think I could be the Olympic all-around champion, why am I still going? I always believe I can.”

How has life changed since the Olympics?

 Raj Bhavsar: There definitely are more opportunities. I feel like I have a platform to talk to people, which is something that I’ve always wanted. I didn’t just want the success or the medal or the fame; I wanted it for something deeper. If in some way my story could uplift another human being’s life and inspire them, then I think that brings purpose to all of this. I’m glad it has all worked out this way because it’s given me a solid foundation, a platform and a piece of success to talk about. It’s real life for me and hopefully people can learn from it. For me, that’s my underlying mission. I feel that I have a responsibility to give back. Gymnastics has given me so much, so how can I take this medal and share it with other people? Maybe through my story, people can pick up some information to help themselves dig themselves out of trenches, particularly during the hard times in life.

It’s just amazing that so many people come up to us and notice what we did in Beijing. They’ll see our faces, or Jon’s face, and they’ll say, “Weren’t you in the Olympics?” Then they always follow it up with a thank you. They always thank us. That really hits home that they see what we did for this country. I walked into the bank here in Houston and the guy helping me out recognized me as soon as I walked through the door. It’s great, definitely great, but wild.

Joseph Hagerty: It’s been non-stop. I got back from the Olympics and then three days later, I had to report to Las Vegas for rehearsals for the tour, which lasted three-and-a-half months. Then I went home for Thanksgiving, came back to the (U.S. Olympic) Training Center and trained a little bit, and then went home again for Christmas. Since then I’ve been training and have competed in a few events.

Jonathan Horton: Everybody comes up to me now and is like, “Man, you’re awesome. You’re like a superstar.” But I don’t feel any different. I still feel like the same guy. People recognize me now, and I can’t really go into a restaurant without someone recognizing me. It’s funny because somebody will stare at me and then the light bulb goes off when they realize where they’ve seen me. It’s pretty cool. People ask me, “What now?” since I’ve already gone to the Olympics. But I still have the same goals to go to the Olympic Games and win a team gold medal. I haven’t accomplished everything that I want to do. I’m just as motivated and just as driven to keep going in the sport as I ever was.

Justin Spring: It hasn’t. Around the small town of Champaign, I do a lot of speaking engagements for the university and some photo shoots for magazines. Those are just the extra bonus things that are fun to be part of. Occasionally I get recognized and that’s cool. I’ve gone back to coaching with the team, and that’s my main focus right now. I got engaged and I’m also going back to grad school for sport management. Those were all things I needed to do and waited for the Olympics to be over. Not really changed due to the Olympics, but now that it’s over, it’s time to do some things that I’ve been putting off. (NOTE: Spring was recently named associate head coach for the men’s gymnastics team at the University of Illinois.)

Kevin Tan: Tour was a great time. We were able to celebrate our accomplishments at the Olympics and live in the limelight a little longer. Since then, I’ve jumped right back into the swing of things. I’ve been coaching and taking care of my body in preparation to future competitions.

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2008 Olympic silver-medalist Horton visits Dallas to promote 2009 Visa Championships

DALLAS, May 21, 2009—2008 Olympic silver-medalist Jon Horton of Houston visited schools and gymnastics clubs in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area to promote the 2009 Visa Championships, scheduled Aug. 12-15 at the American Airlines Center. Horton visited six schools and three clubs. He is pictured addressing a school assembly at Garner Elementary in Grand Prairie, Texas and gymnasts at U.S. Gold Gymnastics in Roanoke, Texas. All-session tickets for the Visa Championships are currently on sale.

Horton helped the U.S. Olympic men’s team win the bronze medal 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and brought home an individual silver medal on horizontal bar. A three-time team captain at the University of Oklahoma, Horton’s collegiate accomplishments include: 2006 NCAA all-around champion; Oklahoma records for career All-America honors (18) and career NCAA individual titles (six) – breaking marks previously held by two-time Olympic gold-medalist Bart Conner. Horton led the Sooners to three NCAA team titles (2005-06, 2008) and a second-place finish in 2007. In 2008, he was named USA Gymnastics’ Men’s Athlete of the Year and won the 2008 NCAA Nissen-Emery Award, which is given to the top male senior gymnast.

Source: USAGymnastics

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