tered. “To move up from eighth to fifth place is
great,” Gael da Silva said. It’s our second-best performance ever, so we’re really proud and happy.”
Without Yuri Ryazanov, who died in a car accident shortly after winning the 2010 world all-around bronze, the Russians were never really a
medal contender. They maintained their sixth-place
seeding but could have placed higher without high
bar falls from Maxim Devyatovsky and Sergei
Khorokhordin. On the next event, David Belyavsky,
who was extremely creative on floor, fell out of
bounds on a piked double full-in.
With the lowest team totals on floor, rings and
parallel bars, Great Britain finished seventh. “It’s
the first time we are in a team final,” Kristian
Thomas said. “It was really next year’s goal to make
Korea began well on vault, with the second-best
team total ( 48.132), then ranked seventh on four of
the remaining five events (sixth on floor) to finish
eighth.
ABOVE:Kim Soo Myun
(Korea)
LEFT:David Belyavsky
(Russia)
BELOW:Daniel Purvis
(Great Britain)
