--- title: "Joe Fraser discusses fatherhood, gym ownership and road to LA28 in Zagreb, Croatia; 800 children a week at his gym" sdDatePublished: "2026-08-19T13:13:00Z" source: "https://www.olympics.com/en/news/gymnast-joe-fraser-fatherhood-gym-ownership-third-olympic-games-la-2028" topics: - name: "artistic gymnastics" identifier: "medtop:20001152" - name: "Olympic Games" identifier: "medtop:20001177" - name: "people" identifier: "medtop:20000502" - name: "business enterprise" identifier: "medtop:20000349" - name: "parenting" identifier: "medtop:20000787" - name: "sport" identifier: "medtop:15000000" locations: - "Zagreb" - "Los Angeles" - "Île-de-France" --- Joe Fraser discusses fatherhood, gym ownership and road to LA28 in Zagreb, Croatia; 800 children a week at his gym Gymnast Joe Fraser on fatherhood, gym ownership and the road to a third Olympic Games at LA28 Gymnast Joe Fraser on fatherhood, gym ownership and the road to a third Olympic Games at LA28 As he prepares for the 2026 European Championships in Zagreb, Team GB star Joe Fraser reflected on a transformative period since Paris 2024. "The last time I spoke to you, I remember you saying that at LA28 there could be lots of parents in the GB team and I knew at the time that we were expecting but I didn't want to let on." So said Joe Fraser with a smile while talking to Olympics.com ahead of the European Championships in Men's Artistic Gymnastics in Zagreb, Croatia starting Wednesday (19 August) of his baby girl due in November. Olympics.com had cited six-time Olympic medallist and dad of seven-year-old Willow, Max Whitlock , two-time world bronze medallist and dad of nearly two-year-old Taliaya, Courtney Tulloch , and Olympic bronze medallist and mum of nearly one-year-old Parker, Alice Kinsella , as Team GB gymnastics parents aiming for the Olympic Games LA28 . Little did we know there was one more to add to the brood when we spoke to Fraser at the Liverpool Arena in April after he'd just become the all-around national champion. " It's been a real eye-opener ," said Fraser of the news, which he announced on Instagram in May, followed by a gender reveal video alongside partner and performing arts academy owner, Tia Noakes. "I've loved talking to Courtney and hearing about his experiences and everyone keeps telling me to enjoy the sleep while I can but yeah, I couldn't be more over the moon . Tia's about 26 weeks now, so it's all becoming very real." Also very real for the busiest man in gymnastics is the 27-year-old's other 'baby', Joe Fraser Gymnastics , which he opened in April 2025 and so is now 16-months old. 2026 European Gymnastics Championships: Schedule, final results, scores, and medals - full list 2026 European Gymnastics Championships men's competition featuring McClenaghan, Petrounias and Hepworth: Stars in action and how to watch live Men's All-Around Final | Artistic Gymnastics | Olympic Games Paris 2024 The Men's All-Around Artistic Gymnastics Final took place on 31 2024 at the Bercy Arena, Paris. Shinnosuke Oka (JPN) claimed the Gold, Boheng Zhang (CHN) took the Silver, and Ruoteng Xiao (CHN) the Bronze. Joe Fraser Gymnastics centre a lifelong dream The facility in the geographic heart of England features gymnastics lessons for all ages and abilities – from parent and toddler to recreation to adults – but what's most important to Fraser, who is also one of the coaches, is that it has fun at its centre. "We try to keep it very light-hearted and fun but they're also learning at the same time," said the Birmingham native of the vibe at his Lichfield-based gym. "I think that's probably something I've got from my own career where Lee (Woolls, Fraser's long-time coach) always made it so we were playing a game. I wanted to be a part of that game and see what I could achieve without necessarily realising that it was pushing me along." Doodling designs even before having a facility in place, Fraser said he has "jumped in with two feet" to every aspect of the business from finding the building itself to picking the equipment to sorting rotas, hiring coaches, and financial management. "I just figured it out along the way but there were people that were around that were more than happy to be a part of that journey," said Fraser of the rallying of the gymnastics community of which he's long been a part. "Our club manager, Donna Mucklow, for example, she was well involved in the gym long before we found the unit... When I actually did find the unit, I told her to come down and have a look and she brought her husband who was a project manager, so he then project managed the whole gym. They did loads of electrics, knocked walls out, built walls, built security doors and all sorts of things like that. "Donna's nephew was a plumber and he did all the plumbing in the gym and my mum's an accountant and handles all of that, so I really have been blessed with very special people , and now we have a gym that's bringing about 800 children a week through the doors." Finding time for his actual gymnastics career, which has already garnered three world medals, and six European podiums plus two fourth-place finishes in the Olympic team event and a fifth-place finish in the all-around at Paris 2024 , Fraser has found ways to juggle all aspects of his life while navigating life's milestones, which also includes aiming for a third Olympic Games. Joe Fraser of Team GB trains on the horizontal bar at Paris 2024 Joe Fraser's techniques for managing a busy life "Paris feels like a lifetime ago. I feel like my life's changed so much since then... I've got my own gymnastics club, I've returned back to gymnastics, I've got a baby on the way, like all these huge, huge milestones in my life have happened in reasonably a short amount of time . So I'm just trying to be, wherever I am, involved and just enjoying the process of that, which has been a joy, honestly. "It's been up and down, of course there's been struggles with, let's say I needed to cover a coach and I'm at Lilleshall (GB's training facility) and I need to rush through my session, get it done in an hour and a half and get back," said Fraser who has necessarily scaled back coaching as big championships approach. "But you know what, I asked for this. If I'm having a struggle or a tough day, I just think to myself, 'You chose to do this, so enjoy it. Enjoy what you've committed to'." Another technique to keep on top of everything is a simple one. "I try to be very present in the gym and then when I'm out of the gym, I try to be very present, so it gives me a nice area to be zoned in to what I'm doing and I think that's probably different to when I was a bit younger. I was gymnastics everything, every single thing, so it gives me a different perspective on life ." Reminding him of interviewing him ahead of his debut World Championships in 2018, when he said his hobby was collecting trainers, Fraser laughed. "Those days are long gone. Trainers are no longer my thing anymore. I'm just trying to sell them all. Who's got time to be wearing those?" Not you Joe, definitely not you. How to watch the 2026 European Gymnastics Championships live You can watch all the action from the women's and men's events of senior and junior qualifications and the junior finals on the paid-for gymtv.onlin e. See here for information. The senior finals on Friday 21 (men’s apparatus finals part 1), Saturday 22 (men’s apparatus finals part 2) and Sunday 23 August (men’s team final), in addition to the third last subdivision of the men’s qualification rounds on Wednesday 19 August, will be l ivestreamed via the Eurovision Sports platform European Gymnastics | Watch Gymnastics Online | Eurovision Sport . Additionally, check your local TV listing s here . An overview of the TV rights holders of the competitions is available for download here . Live scoring will be available on Live Results - SmartScoring | Every second matters 14 - 30 July 2028 LA 2028 | Olympic Games | USA