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Athletes can still take the podium on Wednesday, when individual disputes occur on the devices
Forcing the bar a little, here's one “almost” what, for the evolution of male artistic gymnastics in the country, worth as podium. Brazil ran out of gold medal, silver or bronze in the final by Rio 2016 Olympics teams, but just the fact of having reached the condition to dispute them has already been a milestone for the Brazilian team. Therefore, you could say it was an honorable sixth place.
Gold stayed with Japan, liderado pelo genial Kohei Uchimura, 27 years, that hits almost everything. A victory with leftovers: 274.094 points. Silver went to Russia (271.453), leaving the bronze on the chest of the Chinese (271.122).
To Brazil, getting ahead of powerful Germany and traditional Ukraine was an honorable result. The rain of medals in men's gymnastics is not over yet. There is the final for devices, starting tomorrow (), and Brazil classified six gymnasts. Arthur Zanetti has a lot of chance in the fight for the second Olympic title, in day 15. And Diego Hypolito, Not only, in day 14 of August.
The rain of medals in men's gymnastics is not over yet. There is the final for devices, starting tomorrow (see the full schedule at the end of the story), and Brazil classified six gymnasts. Arthur Zanetti has a lot of chance in the fight for the second Olympic title, in day 15. And Diego Hypolito, Not only, in day 14 of August.
Brazil had no falls in the final, as had already happened in the qualifiers. The passage of the five Brazilian athletes in the six devices (parallel, bar, solo, pommel horse, rings and jump on the table) was clean. At the gym, starts from a note communicated to the referees, and the errors of execution of the exercises are deducting points until the result announced on the screen. In the team final, each country designates three gymnasts per apparatus. The three notes are computed for the purpose of general average, without discards.
As Brazil did not always risk a high starting score on each device, sometimes the fans did not understand how Japanese and Americans, with clear errors, ended with a higher final score. In short: the more difficult the series, more chance to seduce referees and earn high marks. Brazil was conservative in this respect, and I couldn't do it differently. It hit your roof in technical terms.
That's what the Russians did, Japanese and American: dared. The brilliant Japanese, Kohei Uchimura (photo above) only got high marks on all devices. Always flew higher, taking risk. Not always the greatest, but always up there. He is the current Olympic champion in the general individual, in addition to boasting six world titles on various devices.
The crowd came down when Arthur Zanetti rocked the rings, with excellent grade (15,566), the largest among Brazilians in all devices. He smiled again with another beautiful presentation, no flaws, by Diego Hypolito, Not only (15.133). Again, unlike Beijing and London, he didn't fall. But, in a team competition, to fight for podium, only two exemplary passages is not enough.
Let the individual finals come by device.
When to watch?
Wednesday - General Individual, Arthur Nory and Sérgio Sasaki
Sunday - Solo, Diego Hypolito and Arthur Nory
Monday, 15/8 - Rings, Arthur Zanetti
Tuesday, 16/8 - Fixed Bar, Francisco Barreto
