His heart is set on winning a gold medal -- this one for his country. He may be the best hope for a U. Damaris Orozco says that she and her husband, William, are thrilled but not surprised their son made the Olympic team. John Orozco started down the path to the Olympics when he was 7. His father, who was a sanitation worker, saw a flier offering free gymnastics classes and signed him up. Orozco has never looked back. Orozco on tough times in the Bronx I knew it was what I wanted to do for a long time," Orozco says.
Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, where he trained for seven years. He moved to Los Angeles and began a career in music and acting. Its great to be able to still train in a professional gymnastics gym out here in Los Angeles. If the year-old has his sights set on Tokyo, he could qualify via the Senior Pan American Championships. There, the top two gymnasts for both men and women in the all-around rankings, with a max of one per country, will qualify Olympic spots for their countries in the all-around.
Skip to content Home Elite U. View this post on Instagram. Winning three consecutive Junior Visa U. National Championships in a row , , and He then went on to compete at the Pacific Rim Championships in and helping the team to Gold medals both times. Unfortunately he wasn't able to finish the competition due to sustaining a torn achilles in his right leg while competing on Vault during preliminaries. After surgery and rehab he was able to return to training.
John made the Senior National team in where he performed well at the U. He was chosen to be part of the U. He went on to compete in the All-Around final where he finished 5th, and the High Bar final where he made a costly error, finishing in 8th place. After the world championships, it was announced that John Orozco had decided to turn 'pro' forfeiting future NCAA eligibility.
They called him Kung Fu Panda, for his eating habits. Orozco explained in an interview with Gymnastike. His food of choice? Croissants and a loaf of bread.
Wonder Bread better be paying attention. Synchronized with the U. Watch the music video. The video opens with none other than Orozco.
And in keeping with the title, the video chronicles his journey from the Bronx to him being within reach of his childhood dreams. Outside of his music video debut with Gym Class Heroes, Orozco has dabbled in other forms of entertainment on the rare occasions he can get away from the gym. Right around the time Orozco was getting into gymnastics, he was also earning recognition in another sport. As just a child, the Bronx native became a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
Things changed on that first trip to his new gymnastics gym—which, by the way, he was too young to join originally.
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