Rio de Janeiro ¨C Kohei Uchimura pulled off a stunning last-gasp victory to retain his men¡¯s all-around Olympic gymnastics title at the Rio Games on Wednesday.
Uchimura trailed Oleg Verniaiev of Ukraine by 0.901 points heading into the final apparatus ¡ª the high bar ¡ª but the six-time world champion kept his nerve while Verniaiev stumbled to hand Uchimura the gold with a score of 92.365.
¡°I didn¡¯t see any of Oleg¡¯s performances and I wasn¡¯t looking at the points difference, but then I heard the announcer and I started working it out in my head,¡± said Uchimura, who became the first man to win back-to-back all-around Olympic titles since compatriot Sawao Kato in 1972.
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