Kohei Uchimura won prelims in the All-around.
… Uchimura lived up to his favored status Tuesday, cruising to the top spot after the first two sessions of qualifying at the world gymnastics championships. His score of 90.925 points was more than 1½ points better than anyone else, with one session left.
“I think I could win the gold medal if I hit every routine,” Uchimura said through a translator. “But who knows? It depends on the performances and the routines that day.”
Maxim Deviatovski of Russia, the leader after the first session, is second with 89.350 points and American Tim McNeill, competing at his first major international competition, is a surprising third with 88.775 points. Britain’s Daniel Keatings is fourth while U.S. champion Jonathan Horton is fifth after a fall on the pommel horse. …
The biggest “surprise” was Tim McNeill. Surprise to the World, that is. There’s no surprise to those of us who have been watching him in the NCAA the past 4yrs.
Women’s preliminaries go tomorrow.
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