AND ♪ OF COURSE THIS IS HER YEAR
JEN TOBIAS-STRUSKI HAS MORE.
>> THE 5TH TIME’S A CHARM, BUT YOU KNOW IT’S BEEN 20 YEARS OF TRYING TO MAKE THE OLYMPIC TEAM
SAYS YOU KNOW IT’S PRETTY
REWARDING JUST TO FEEL LIKE I
FINALLY MET MET BY LAW SCHOOL
AND CHEETOS TO MAKE THE OLYMPIC
TEAM AND I WAS ALWAYS REALLY
REALLY CLOSE TO MAKING THE TEAM
AND THINGS ALWAYS HAPPEN LIKE
KENYA JUST SOME OF THAT WAS
GOOD HAVE SOME OF THE
HURT SOMETIMES THEY WERE JUST
YOU KNOW POLITICAL
COMPLICATIONS NINA CUTRO-KELLY
IS MAKING HISTORY
>> I SUSPECTED THAT I MIGHT BE
THE OLDEST PERSON
>> OLDEST AMERICAN TO EVER MAKE
THE OLYMPIC TEAM. BUT WE
ACTUALLY HAD TO LIKE CALCULATED
DOWN TO THE DAY BECAUSE A
WOMAN.
>> IN 2000
4 SHE WAS LIKE 20 YEAS YOUNGER
THAN ME WHEN SHE BOUGHT
THE OLYMPICS SO PEOPLE GOT
CLOSE, BUT I’M OFFICIALLY THE
OLDEST AMERICAN EVER FABIOLA
PICKS FOR GENO IT’S A SPORT
THAT CAME NATURAL TO MEAN A AS
A CHILD.
>> WHO NEEDED THIS COMPETITIVE
OUTLET.
I ACT.
>> IT WAS A 70 YEARS OLD IN
ALBANY, NEW YORK I GOT KICKED
OUT OF.
>> L A.
>> PLUS AND I THINK T-BALL.
FROM THE AGE OF 4 UP UNTIL THAT
POINT AND FINALLY MY FATHER WAS
LIKE YOU KNOW WHAT MAYBE CHEETO
LIKE CHALK AND TROUBLE FOR
BEING ABLE
>> AND BEING YOU KNOW LITTLE
MANIAC AND SO HE TOOK ME TO
HIS CLUB AND I STARTED GIGI
THOUGH THERE AND I
DID IT RECREATIONALLY AND IT
JUST ONCE A WEEK WITH MY DAD
WHEN I WAS 14, I WENT TO A
LOCAL TOURNAMENT I LOST OR GIRL
WHO’S A LOT LIKE SMALLER THAN
ME. WHO HAPPENED TO BE
COACHED BY MY CURRENT COACH JIM
HER BACK WHO RUNS UNIVERSE IS
YOU KNOW SO. HE ENDED UP.
BE LIKE
OH HEY LIKE YES, A FEW
QUESTIONS ABOUT MYSELF AND I
FOUND THAT WITH THE CLUB WASN’T
JUST MIGHT CHANGE CLUBS.
IN ALBANY, NEW YORK AND THEN
THAT CLUB MOVED IN HERE.
TO SAN ANTONIO IN 2006 AND
SINCE
I FOUGHT IN FRANCE LIKE A TRAIN
IN FRANCE FOR ABOUT
8 YEARS MY HOME BASES IN SAN
ANTONIO SINCE 2006.
>> 20 YEARS OF TRAINING AND
PATIENTS SO SURELY NINA WAS NOT
GOING TO LET THE PANDEMIC STOP
HER TRAINING.
>> WHEN COVID FIRST STARTED.
THE PLACES I WAS WORKING AT MY
GYM SHUT DOWN AND SO
JUDO CLUB AND I’M FORTUNATE
ENOUGH THAT
I HAVE THE ROOMMATE THAT CHEETO
WITH ME AND I HAD TO MY GARAGE
AND SO
WE JUST I STARTED CHANGING OF
MY TRAINING, I WAS RUNNING I
WAS LIFTING AT HOME IN MY
GARAGE I WAS DOING G TO MY
GARAGE AND THEN I ACTUALLY
STARTED DOING YOU KNOW MORE AS
THE GYM STARTED TO REOPEN.
I STARTED TO YOU KNOW PRIVATE
LESSONS HERE AT AQUA FITNESS.
AND THAT WAS REALLY AWESOME AND
ALSO IT WAS REALLY COOL WAS
THAT. I WOULD AVOID SHARES FOR
THAT I REALLY LOVE THE PEOPLE
THAT WE’RE HAPPY LEARN IT WITH
THAT MINDSET.
>> THE TERMINATION IT’S NO
WONDER SHE’S HEADED TO JAPAN
AND TRAINING IS NONSTOP.
WE ARE TRAINING WITH NO NO A C
AT THIS POINT.
>> AT MY HOME CLUB.
UNIVERSAL.
>> THE IDEA IS THAT COULD BE
PRETTY HOT AND MUGGY
IN JAPAN AND THEY DON’T AIR
CONDITION THE WAY WE DO AND SO
WE REALLY NEED TO BE PREPARED
FOR.
>> IS TO BE HOT AND MUGGY WHICH
IS NOT THE WORSE IT COULD BE
REALLY COLD WHICH WOULD BE
WORSE FOR ME. BUT WE DEFINITELY
HAVE TO PREPARE FOR
YOU KNOW, HEAT AND HUMIDITY.
THE WEATHER IS ONE FACTOR TO
CONSIDER BUT IN HIS WEIGHT
CLASS BRINGS OTHER CHALLENGES
HAS 7 WEIGHT CLASSES FOR WOMEN
AND
7 FOR MEN. THE UNIQUE PART OF
MY WEIGHT CLASS IS THAT IT’S A
LIMITED SO THE WEIGHT CLASS E
STOPS THAT ONE 72.
POUNDS THE WEIGHT CLASS UNDER
THAT’S UP TO ONE 54 POUNDS MINE
IS OVER A 172 POUNDS A LIMITED
AND SO YOU KNOW, I’M I WEIGH
210 POUNDS OR SOMETHING LIKE
THAT. BUT I THINK BY THE GIRL
WHO WEIGHS 410 POUNDS OF THIS
HAS HAPPENED. OKAY SO IT
BECOMES A VERY GAMES
STRATEGICALLY.
TECHNICALLY BECAUSE YOU KNOW
YOU’RE HALF THE SIZE OF
SOMEBODY AT SOME POINT.
>> NOW IT’S TIME TO PUT ALL
THAT TRAINING TO
THE TEST A SPORT THAT LIT A
FIRE IN NINA AS A CHILD IS NOW
SOMETHING SHE GETS TO SHARE
WITH THE WORLD.
>> I’M REALLY GRATEFUL FOR THE
OPPORTUNITY TO YOU KNOW TALK
BUT YOU KNOW LET THE WHOLE CITY
KNOW ABOUT YOU KNOW BECAUSE.
IT’S IT’S SOME SPORT,
A GREAT FORM OF SELF-DEFENSE
GETTING IN SHAPE AND IT’S YOU