“That does not feel free, it’s uncomfortable.” This is what Frederick Richard felt about the traditional Olympic unitard and fitted pommel horse pants that he has donned hundreds of times. Now the Olympian is not someone who just complains, he acts on it. So he debuted his own design at the Winter Cup competition in February 2025. Now this is not his only attempt for change, recently he has come out on his social media about trying to break another record. What is it this time?
Well, the next thing up on the calendar of the gymnast is going to attempt to break the backflip record. In an Instagram Video posted on March 24, 2025 captioned, “It’s decided! I’m breaking the backflip world record ,” the 20-year-old athlete talked of his latest project. He said, “Guys, I’m doing it. I’m doing it. I’m breaking the backflip world record in 24 hours. 1,001 backflips is the record.” Now you would be wrong if you think he was coming for 1,002, no he said, ” can’t just go for 1,002 because someone will beat it. I got to get some number way further so no one comes near it for a while.” Talk of mentality!!!
At first, he didn’t want to do it, he wanted to keep his body safe citing, ” tried to sit back, guys. I watched Speed attempt to break the record. First, I didn’t want to break it. I got to preserve the body. I got to stay healthy, keep training for LA 2028. But there’s a little sliver of time in my calendar.” Yes, it turns out the gymnast does have a little free time to help out Fredrick. He even explained how.
The gymnast said, “I can break the backflip record and then have seven days to recover. Not going to take any crazy amount of training. If I get like one week of preparation, do a couple hundred every day. By day 70, then we do 1,000.” The respect for Frederick Richard goes higher when he tells what he is doing it for.
Apart from his personal dopamine, another reason for this attempt is to not “just break the record. I want to raise money through charity to bring that equipment to Africa.” Africa struggles with a lot of monetary issues and the conditions of sports in the country are even poorer, Flips himself says “All these kids in Africa are flipping on tires and mattresses” and he just wants to do the right thing for them asking, “How good could they get if they had real equipment? I can go there and bring them equipment there so they always have it. I think it’s exciting. I think this is what sports is about.” Well, that is quite an inspiring definition of sports he has.
He concluded the video by asking the fanbase for their opinions. He asked, “You guys think this is a good idea or a stupid idea?Let me know. I really want to beat that record.”
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