Gymnast Rebeca Andrade stands proud at end of her breakthrough year | Tumaini Carayol

The 22-year-old became Brazil’s first female Olympic gymnastics medallist at the Tokyo Games and has just become world vault championThere has never been a gymnastics world championships quite like the event that unfolded at the weekend in Kitakyushu, a northern city on Kyushu Island in Japan. In a sport so intense that it is difficult for gymnasts to maintain their peak physical form and workload for extended periods, another major championship so soon after the Olympics forced many gymna