Watch above: Saskatchewan is known to produce some great hockey players but three brothers are hoping to put gymnastics on the map. Carly Robinson meets with the Tyndall’s where they’re training for the Canada Winter Games.
SASKATOON – Parents of most of the athletes competing at the Canada Winter Games have a feeling of great pride. For a Saskatoon family the feeling is tripled with all three of their sons competing for Team Saskatchewan in men’s gymnastics.
For the eldest of their sons, Wyatt Tyndall, this will be his second Canada Winter Games, an experience he describes as “like a mini Olympics” that he’s excited to now share with his two younger brothers, Jesse and Mitch.
The brothers, aged 18, 16 and 14, have been spending upwards of 24-hours a week at the gym, training four hours a night six-days a week. It’s a commitment they hope will help their team place on the podium at the upcoming games.
Although Jesse realizes that his older brothers have a better chance at placing in the individual medals, he says that “it’s kind of a rivalry when we’re competing against each other.” The brothers all help each other every chance they can and say having the others around helps motivate and push them to be the best they can.
“Not many men are gymnasts,” says Mitch, mentioning how the sport is more popular in provinces like Ontario or British Columbia.
“It’s one of the hardest sports out there people say. I love being a gymnast and being proud of what sport I do.”
“You definitively learn a lot of life skills in gymnastics,” stresses Wyatt, “It is a sport, but it’s more than that. You learn how to cope with different things that necessarily you wouldn’t without gymnastics. And I think that gives me a head start in certain things in life.”
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For their mother Janice Tyndall, the feeling of pride she gets when watching her sons compete is always accompanied with a certain level of stress when they take to the different apparatus’.
Wyatt, Mitch and Jesse leave with the rest of Team Saskatchewan for the Canada Winter Games in Prince George on Thursday.
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