Ellie finished 13th in the all-around at Rio 2016, despite having fallen badly on her head during a tumbling routine.
Neither athlete is a stranger to the Olympic stage, with Becky finishing 12th in the all-around at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games before making her second appearance at Rio 2016, where she finished 10th in the qualifying round. For her part, Becky won gold medals at the 20 European Championships in the uneven bars event, while more recently she won a silver medal in the same event at the 2019 World Championships. I want nothing more than improvement for our sport. Ellie is the 2017 European gymnastics all-around champion, becoming the first athlete from Britain to win the title. Whole heartedly support the gymnastalliance movement & Gymnasts4Change. There is a seven-year age gap between Becky - the older of the two at 29 - and Ellie, but both share a fierce determination to succeed. Becky and Ellie Downie are two of Great Britain's strongest medal hopes in Tokyo, having both won gold medals on the European stage. Eating disorders, win-at-all-costs: British gymnastics issue shows how abuse is normalised in sport. When the Tokyo 2020 gymnastics competition takes place this summer, two sisters from Nottingham, England will each be hoping to bring some shiny souvenirs home from the Games. You always feel nervous for a team-mate, but when it’s a family member it’s a different kind of emotion, you feel it more A tale of two sisters I'd be a little lost without her Ellie on Becky:
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