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Denis Ablyazin to take a rest break - then, more medals!

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Bronze on rings and silver on vault were Denis's reward for hard work, earned today in Rio.

Interviewed by Sportbox after the event, Denis said he would take a break after the Games to treat and rest a 'very sore shoulder'.  He plans to return to competition with his most complicated routines, not watering down, as that 'is not my way'.  He pointed out that he was better prepared for Rio than he had been for London; by implication I wonder if we can take that to mean he'll be better still in 2020?!

Russia's other qualifier to vault final, 19 year old Nikita Nagorny, performed well to finish in fifth position.  

In the women's competition, the graceful Sanne Wevers of the Netherlands won gold with a beautiful and original beam routine after expected gold medallist Simone Biles bobbled on this precarious apparatus.  Wever's win was the first Olympic medal in gymnastics for a Netherlands woman.

Today's finals were notable for the high standard of consistency, with only one fall in vault and two on beam, counting Simone's technical fall.  Ukraine's Igor Radivilov performed his handspring triple front vault - severely cowboyed and a very low landing - the first of its kind.  

Congratulations to all the competitors!!










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  1. Anonymous16 August 2016 at 00:30

    Had to admit, though I am an American, I was rooting for Flavia at the end there for a medal. She is such a cutie.

    Congrats to all. One more day for medals tomorrow. :)

    Todd

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  2. Anonymous16 August 2016 at 02:54

    YAY!!! So happy the men were finally able to get some hardware outside the team event. They've been so close and fallen just short a number of times its great to finally see them stand on the podium. They really deserve it!
    Now if David can finally get a medal on the parallel bars tomorrow it would be thrilling. He's fallen just short too many times its heartbreaking

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  3. Gláucia Sousa16 August 2016 at 22:32

    I am very Sorry about Bb results
    The best gymnast, Simone Biles, had a strange fault yesyerday... As till now, I did not understand very well Mustafina's fault in qualificativos. And, as Aly Raismann had Said alread: I hate fourth. In this case for Belyasvsk.

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