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Jacob Dalton retires from gymnastics

Jacob Dalton, a two-time U.S. Olympic gymnast, has retired at age 25.

“I could kind of feel my body going downhill,” Dalton said, according to Inside Gymnastics magazine, adding that he plans to help manage his parents’ Nevada gyms. “It [was] definitely a struggle to maintain peak conditioning getting ready for the [Rio] Olympics. I tried to take a little bit of a break and recover. It was really hard to enjoy going into the gym every single day, hurting that much on all the events… I wanted to end my career on a high note [the Olympics].