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 The Chinese men captured their ninth world team title Thursday evening at the 2010 World Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam. Left to right: Lu Bo, Teng Haibin, Feng Zhe, Yan Mingyong, Chen Yibing and Zhang Chenglong The Chinese men captured their ninth world team title Thursday evening, topping Japan and Germany at the 2010 World Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam. The U.S. took fourth as the top four teams repeated their ranking from the 2007 Worlds in Stuttgart. China outscored Japan by 1.228, giving the dominant Chinese men their smallest margin of victory in recent years. The Chinese just edged Japan on floor exercise and parallel bars, but outscored their top rivals by more than 2 points on still rings. Led by world champion Kohei Uchimura, Japan nearly won its first team title since 1978. The Japanese outscored the field on pommel horse and vault, but falls from Kazuhito Tanaka on still rings and high bar ultimately cost them the gold medal. Fifth in qualification, European champion Germany thrilled itself with the bronze. The Germans, who lost national champion Marcel Nguyen to a broken leg only weeks ago, gave an inspired effort in finals to lead all teams after four events. The team ended on its weakest event, pommel horse, but avoided disaster to keep itself on the podium. The U.S. outscored all teams on high bar and was third on rings, but finished last on pommel horse. France, Russia, Great Britain and Korea rounded out the team finalists. Competition continues Friday with the men's and women's all-around finals. Read complete coverage of the 2010 Worlds in the December issue of International Gymnast Magazine. Click here to subscribe today at our special world championships discount! 2010 World Gymnastics Championships
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Kristin
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Nice! Well, the first two spots were not big surprises, and probably well deserved, but as a European myself, it was really nice with the German bronze medal!  |
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... Too bad about Japan's falls. There will be more pressure to win next year in their home country....and I think they will do it. The US will have to fix the pommel horse situation if they hope to contend for gold by the Olympics. They have some horse specialists who don't do other events (which is no good for the team set-up). The other top guys' scores are just OK if they hit and, of course, it's a precarious event, so with a mistake, the scores are less than OK. What's up with the strange score truncation? Are they cutting down on the number of judges too? This may lead to some erroneous results in the all-around. |
