{"id":20723,"date":"2023-03-19T10:18:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T10:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/19\/shilese-jones-usas-latest-star-gymnast-on-her-path-to-the-podium-womens-sports-alliance\/"},"modified":"2023-03-19T10:18:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T10:18:51","slug":"shilese-jones-usas-latest-star-gymnast-on-her-path-to-the-podium-womens-sports-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/19\/shilese-jones-usas-latest-star-gymnast-on-her-path-to-the-podium-womens-sports-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Shilese Jones \u2013 USA\u2019s latest star gymnast on her path to the podium \u2014 Women&#8217;s Sports Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap;\" class=\"sqsrte-small\">They set her on this path; 14 years ago the youngster began her journey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap;\" class=\"sqsrte-small\">After \u201cflipping around the house\u201d a little too often her parents decided gymnastics classes would be the best way to nurture that natural flare.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap;\" class=\"sqsrte-small\">Asked whether she knew as a child or in her early teen years whether a career at the elite end of the sport was possible, Shilese is brutally honest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap;\" class=\"sqsrte-small\">\u201cHa, I don&#8217;t think I ever knew,\u201d she tells the WSA. \u201cHonestly, at first it was just a thing to do and something that was fun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap;\" class=\"sqsrte-small\">\u201cI would say I really only started taking it serious when I first made the (USA) national team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap;\" class=\"sqsrte-small\">Now, following her successes at the 2022 World Championships, she is now marked out as a key \u2018one to watch\u2019 come the next Olympics, which are just 18 months away.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.agent=\"plsquarespace\";n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');fbq('init', '991468131634050');fbq('track', \"PageView\");<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsportsalliance.com\/news\/shilese-jones-usa-gymnast-on-her-path-to-the-podium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They set her on this path; 14 years ago the youngster began her journey. After \u201cflipping around the house\u201d a little too often her parents decided gymnastics classes would be the best way to nurture that natural flare. Asked whether she knew as a child or in her early teen years whether a career at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6805],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-womens"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}