Coming off a year in which he sealed his legacy as an all-time great by adding two more Olympic gold medals at the Rio Summer Games, Koehi Uchimura got off to a good start in his first season as a professional gymnast. He captured his 10th consecutive national championship title two weeks ago in Tokyo.
But the 28-year-old, who's known as "King Kohei," was far from satisfied with his performance.
“Though winning it for 10 years in a row is great by itself, I wasn’t able to perform how I wanted to,” Uchimura told reporters after practice at the National Training Center on Wednesday. “It really made me think that I want to come up with a better result along with a better performance.”