COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — It’s been nearly four years, but gymnast Danell Leyva is still getting around to believing he won an Olympic medal.
He doesn’t go to YouTube to relive that performance in London that led him to an all-around bronze medal, in part because he’s looking forward and but also because he’d have to devote time to watch the entire competition.
For years, the Olympics seemed like an unattainable competition. Then he got there and it was a gymnastics meet, one in which he excelled.
“I still haven’t fully processed the fact that that was the Olympics and that actually happened,” Leyva says before a training camp at the U.