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Orozco was born in The Bronx, New York, and is the son of Puerto Rican parents. While growing up, his mother drove him 30 miles from his home in the Bronx to his gym, World Cup Gymnastics, in Chappaqua, New York for practice. [ 3 ]
3 mar 2012 · While most parents dropped off their children and retrieved them hours later, Orozco’s mother usually sat on a folding chair in one corner of the balcony.
1 sie 2012 · Orozco, the youngest of five children, started in gymnastics at 8, after his father came home with a flier announcing free gymnastics lessons for economically challenged families.
26 lip 2012 · 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...
His father had a stroke while he was competing at the 2007 US Junior Championships. Instead of leaving, he stayed and competed because his mother felt that is what his father would have wanted him to do.
3 mar 2020 · John Orozco is returning to his roots. The gymnast, who represented the United States at the 2012 Olympic Games in London at just 19 years old, has recently been cleared to compete for Puerto Rico, where both his parents were born before moving to the United States.
24 lip 2012 · Orozco was just seven years old when his father signed him up for free gymnastics lessons. In the 12 years since then, no one, not even Orozco himself, knew that these lessons would begin the...
