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The challenge starts now. 1,000 more to go and then I break the back of the world record
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Did you catch iShowSpeed take on this record attempt last year? Well, Olympic gymnast and bronze medalist Frederick Richard has never backed down from a challenge
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This is the first gym I started and that's why I did the event here. And they gave me the opportunities, the resources, everything I needed to get to the highest level
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made to the Olympic level. One! Two hundred! One fifth of the way there
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Probably done about a thousand combined, but now I have to do a thousand today. The most I did in one day was 500
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I'm going to pace it out where I do 60 flips per hour, which is one flip per minute
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And that'll take 18 hours to finish. We can't do a backflip record and not have someone learn a backflip today. Go! Flip! Flip! Flip! Flip
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So close to halfway mark. That is wild. I'm about to break 500
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But this isn just about record Fred is live the event to raise money for gymnastics equipment for children in Africa
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All the people around me helped me get to the next level and make it to my dreams
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So now I come back, do stuff like this, help other people get to the next level. We're not stopping now
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800, let's go, Shannon! He's now hit the 800 mark, but with 201 somersaults to go, will he be able to break the record
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Three, two, one! He's officially done it and goes on to hit 1,111 backwards somersaults in 24 hours
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I'm going to continue to just try to do big things, try to change the sport
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So it's just the beginning. So
