Ahead of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, superstar Kohei Uchimura and four other members of the Japan men's gymnastics team got haircuts a few days ago.
This wasn't necessarily a sign of their spirited mood for competition at the global sporting festival, because it's a little too premature for that.
On Tuesday, one day before their departure for South America, the five gymnasts looked pretty laid-back at a Tokyo news conference.
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