Commonwealth Games gymnastics competitor Gabby Logan thinks that she would have excelled on a bike but never tried cycling because there was no pathway at the time
Gabby Logan revealed that she thinks she could have made it as a cyclist after she retired from gymnastics.
The sports presenter said she tried lots of different sports when she retired from rhythmic gymnastics, but she thinks that she would have excelled on a bike. Logan, 52, said she never tried cycling because there was no pathway at the time, but she now thinks that if she had started training as a teenager, she could have been successful.
She retired from rhythmic gymnastics when she was 17, after competing at the Commonwealth Games and realising she would not be selected to compete at the Olympics Talking on the Gold Minds podcast, she said: “I’d go down to my local swimming pool and the World Swimming Championships was on.
“And because I met so many swimmers at Commonwealth Games, I thought, oh, I’ll see if I could be a swimmer. And I’d look at the time on the clock and go, no, that’s not going to work.
“And then I started doing some cross-country races at school. Could I be a runner? No, 56th out of 100 in the Yorkshire Championships. My high jump wasn’t good enough.
“Well, too late for tennis. But you know what I probably could have done is get on a bike, I reckon, because I’m not bad on a bike.
“And I think at 17, I probably would have been, all that training, while it wasn’t directly related to the sport, that mindset that I had about competition would probably have been quite a good start in that arena, you know.
“And I think Talent ID really only came in about 10 years later, didn’t it?”
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