© Provided by The Columbus Dispatch Gymnast Alec Yoder, a 2019 graduate of Ohio State who specializes in the pommel horse, told USA Gymnastics that he was in favor of the Olympics being postponed. Still, he said “the heartbreak really set in” when the news became official. [Rick Osentoski/Associated Press]After a training session Monday, Alec Yoder opened a flood of text messages about a story from USA TODAY that revealed the Summer Olympics in Tokyo would be postponed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The next morning, while watching TV in his Columbus apartment, Yoder learned that the International Olympic Committee had officially delayed the games until 2021. The former Ohio State gymnast, who graduated in 2019, had circled the summer of 2020 as the year he would become an Olympian well before he stepped onto a mat as a Buckeye. His dream was at least a decade in the…
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