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FFORMULAORMULA 1 | Page 2 CCRICKETRICKET | Page 3 Hamilton Sharma and joins Fangio Rayudu tons with ‘surreal’ set up India’s fi ft h title 224-run win Tuesday, October 30, 2018 FOOTBALL Safar 21, 1440 AH Mbappe scores as GULF TIMES Paris equal Europe win record SPORT Page 7 48TH ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS DOHA 2018 Russia come agonisingly close as China win gold An error on Horizontal Bar costs Russia the world title but reserve their spots at 2020 Olympics along with China, Japan By Sahan Bidappa pion Xiao Ruoteng had a fall on formance in Montreal. But they Doha the Bars, which meant a deduc- struggled on Bars, which undid tion of one point and a low score all the good work till halfway of 12.600. point. Yusuke Tanaka came off t was so near yet so far for the Russia would have prevailed on the fourth rotation, drop- Russians. Nikita Nagornyy if Nagornyy repeated his score ping the Japanese to third place, needed a score of 13.822 from last week’s qualifying but while three-time Olympic gold on the Horizontal Bar to with all eyes on him, the 21-year- medallist and six-time world all- Iclinch Russia’s fi rst ever team old faltered on a headstand. around champion Kohei Uch- gold medal at the World Artistic In fact, it was Russians who imura was still in discomfort yes- Gymnastics Championships. were leading by a massive 1.919 terday, recovering from an ankle But a small error on an open- after four rotations before Artur injury. ing handstand meant he fi nished Dalaloyan slipped off the Parallel Uchimura said: “I feel for bad with 13.733 to hand China the Bars and China took advantage of for my teammates as I could not gold by a meagre .049 points in a it, before nearly giving it away in do well because of my injury. thrilling team fi nal at the Aspire the Bars. There is also lot of work to do Dome. The breakthrough perform- between now and 2020, but we In the end, Russia had to set- ance for China came from Zou are confi dent we can win gold in tle for a silver, their fi rst medal at Jingyuan, who was immacu- Tokyo.” the Worlds since 2006. Defend- late in Parallel Bars as he scored The US team, which came ing Olympic and world cham- 16.200, the highest of the Doha agonisingly close for a bronze, pions Japan took home bronze, Worlds far. were impressive despite bring- 1.75 points ahead of the US. The China’s coach Liang Chow was ing a young team to Doha. Sam top three teams also sealed their pleased with victory especially Mikulak said the experience of place at the 2020 Tokyo Olym- as it comes after China had to be participating at a world stage will pics. content with bronze at 2016 Rio do a world of good for his young Olympics. However, he added teammates. his team needs to improve a lot “We did the job we came out to if they have to reach the greater do. We’re all much better gym- heights of 1994 to 2014, when nasts today than we were yes- China won 10 of the 11 world terday. This is an experience for team titles. a lifetime, and now, we put the “We are very happy with the pressure on a lot of teams who I win. After 2015, new athletes think weren’t looking at us the have come in and made our team way they’re going to start looking stronger and that helped us to at us,” Mikulak said. win the championship here in “Coming into this, no one re- Doha. Russia have made a lot of ally saw us as being up on that progress and were impressive. podium, so we were coming in Winners China (in red) pose on the podium with second-placed Russia (in white and blue) and third-placed Japan (in white and red) after the Japan could not do well as they as underdogs. These guys are men’s team final at the 48th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Doha 2018 at Aspire Dome yesterday. PICTURES: Thajudheen were missing two gymnasts due young. For a lot of them it’s to injury,” Chow said. their first Worlds. They came Ruoteng, meanwhile, was re- out and showed better than I lieved his mistake on the Bars did did, the veteran, so that’s going not cost China the title. “I was to be a huge confidence-boost- feeling very disappointed after er,” he added. my fall. But I was keen to fi nish all The women’s team fi nals will my moves and help my team. I am take place today, with the United glad it ended happily,” he said. States led by Simone Biles heav- Russia’s Dalaloyan looked at ily favoured to lead the defending the bright side and said they were champions to another gold. Rus- pleased to punch their ticket to sia, China, Brazil, Japan, France It was the closest Olympic or Olympics. “Our main task was to and Germany are other top eight world men’s or women’s team qualify for Olympics and we have teams who will be in action in the fi nal since the perfect-10 scor- done it. We made mistakes but fi nals. ing system was replaced in 2006. every team committed mistakes The eight-team fi nal was a see- in the fi nal. I am thankful to the MEN’S TEAM FINAL saw battle, with China placed fans who cheered for me after I STANDINGS seventh after the second of six fell as it gave me energy. We are 1. China 256.634 points routines. But they slowly made happy with the silver medal as 2. Russia 256.585 progress and were leading Russia a podium fi nish at this level is a 3. Japan 253.744 by 0.948 points heading into the good achievement,” he said. 4. United States 251.994 fi nal rotation — Horizontal Bar. Defending champion Japan, 5. Great Britain 248.628 Russia, however, came back cheered on by vociferous sup- 6. Switzerland 244.294 into contention after China’s de- porters, were also in contention 7. Brazil 243.994 A Chinese gymnast in action during the men’s team final round at the fending world all-around cham- for a repeat of last year’s per- 8. Netherlands 240.660 48th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Doha 2018 yesterday. BOTTOMLINE Green shoots confi rm Romanian recovery on right track FIG The team has not won a world from this moment I think we can and then start again at the begin- live, train and study together in forts on Floor on Sunday, despite Doha championship team medal since re-build. First we had to rebuild ning. But I love Romanian gym- Deva, Romania, under the careful scoring 13.400 and fi nishing 11th. 2007 and failed to even qualify for trust in ourselves and our capac- nastics and I do everything I can eye of their coach and, despite, ac- “It could have been much bet- the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. ity to compete.” to help bring it up again.” cording to Forminte, a continued ter,” Golgota said. “I am only omania’s 13th-place fi n- That was a mighty fall for a na- Reinstated as head coach of Carmen Ghiciuc was part of lack of serious investment, the quite happy.” ish in the women’s team tion used to topping Olympic po- the women’s team in September the group that performed a suc- set-up is starting to pay dividends. Despite not having the num- qualifi cation competi- diums – the women’s team won a 2016, fi ve years after quitting the cession of clean routines in Doha, “We have always done well with bers – Forminte thinks he will tion might not seem like medal at every Games from 1972- post, Forminte has been battling propelling the team ahead of ri- very little money,” Forminte said. only have eight or nine senior Rmuch but for gymnastics lovers 2012 – and resulted in an intense hard to change attitudes. vals including Ukraine, Spain, “We are lucky that our children women to work with in 2019 – everywhere, it was arguably one period of soul-searching. “First I needed the support Hungary and the Republic of Ko- are very talented in this sport. And the coach does think Golgota’s of the most signifi cant develop- But in Doha’s Aspire Arena on from the gymnasts and I am rea. She knows the public want there are some coaches like me arrival is just the start. ments of the 2018 World Cham- Sunday, renowned medal-win- pleased they understand today more but is adamant they are who do not want to give up.” “From 2020 we will be better,” pionships so far. ning coach Nicolae Forminte saw how to compete,” he said in Doha. now on the right path. The emergence of gymnasts he said. “We have a group of six From Nadia Comaneci to Dan- something he liked. “Then I need more time because “There is pressure on us be- like Denisa Golgota confi rms or seven young juniors who are iela Silivas and Andreea Raducan “Today was a nice present from in gymnastics you cannot build cause lately Romanian gymnas- Forminte’s words. The 16-year- already on the same level as this to Catalina Ponor, women’s ar- the gymnasts because for the something easily.