Danell Leyva aims to convert skeptics at world gymnastics championships

Danell Leyva watched a gymnastics video in his parents' Miami home when he was 3 years old and fell in love. Now 19,Leyva remembers pointing to the screen and telling his mother and stepfather, who had spent their childhoods in Cuba's national gymnastics academy, "That is what I want to do."

His mother recalls the moment, too; only she considered the plan utter foolishness. When her gymnastics career ended, she had coached in Havana, hand-picking the island nation's best young athletes, those with perfect gymnastics bodies.

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Philip Rucker 15 Sep, 2011

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