'It's crazy. I never thought I would get this close,' said Uemera, a 16-year-old junior at Francis W. Parker School.
A 16-year-old Chicago gymnast is trying to make his first world championship team, and that's far from his only goal.
His long-term goal of making the Olympic team is not so far off either, with Paris 2024 on the horizon. "You can see it right away. You see in the eyes. The kid is listening. The kid wants to do it. You cannot fake it. It's a natural thing," Andryushchenko said.
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