David Kikuchi: [quote]"I would be the one with less physical talent," says Kikuchi, 27, a leading member of the strongest Canadian men's gymnastics team in decades. "Nothing came that easily to me. I wasn't able to do the skills right away. It took me a long time to get to be on the national team." That sounds a little modest, considering Kikuchi's career. His team walked away from the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne with gold. Kikuchi himself won national gold in rings and on the horizontal bar last May in Quebec City. His team placed sixth in the world championships in October - a record high for Canada.[/quote] the article is called "Persistence pays off for star gymnast Thirty under thirty: watch out for these up-and-comers" - http://www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=10398&sc=2 I think for Simona Amanar her coach, Octavian Belu, also said that she got to the top with hard work, not so much raw talent like they call it in this article. Lots of other gymnasts too.