How Russia built its gymnastics coronation at the Tokyo Olympics

Until the final passage signed Nikita Nagorniy on the ground, the outcome of this team final will have been uncertain. But it was Russia which won on Monday for 103 thousandths of a point, twenty-five years after its only Olympic coronation in Atlanta, and two years after the first world event. We would have predicted this victory which deprives Japan (2nd), guided by a young generation, of the eighth title in its history, the second in a row after that of Rio, and relegates China to 3rd place, as in 2016. But It was before the total rupture of Artur Dalaloyan’s left Achilles tendon last April, another major piece, who was world champion in 2018, before his friend Nagorniy succeeded him the following year.

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