On July 24, Beijing time, the Tokyo Olympic Gymnastics Men's Qualifying Tournament was held at the Ariake Gymnastics Hall in Japan, and The legendary Japanese veteran Hanghei Uchimura dropped his equipment in the horizontal bar event, and was eliminated with 13.866 points, hastily ending the Tokyo Olympic tour.
Born in 1989 to a gymnast, Uchimura's parents were gymnasts, so he was exposed to gymnastics from the age of three. In 2006, at the age of 17, Uchmura won the High School Trials, the Japan Youth Championship, and the International Junior Open, and then entered the national team and began his legendary career. At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Uchimura Hanghei, who was under the age of 20, told the world that Japan was about to give birth to an almighty king. He was personally all-powerful after Yang Wei of the Chinese team, and together with the boy band won two silver medals. With Yang Wei's retirement after the Beijing Olympics, Uchimura Hangping ushered in an era that belonged to him. From 2009 to 2016, 8 years of olympic and world competitions, he did not meet the opponent in the individual all-around event. Prior to the Games, he held 10 world titles and set a new world record with eight consecutive titles, including the London 2012 Olympic Games and the Rio 2016 All-Around Champion.
After the Rio Olympics, Uchimura Hanghei was affected by injuries, and his performance began to decline, and it was almost impossible to win the all-around king for three consecutive years. After much deliberation, in February last year, Uchimura decided to specialize in the horizontal bar, which he was best at, and as the Tokyo Olympics were forced to postpone for a year, it became increasingly difficult for him to compete for gold in the Olympic Games. Sure enough, in the competition on the first competition day of gymnastics at the Tokyo Olympic Games, Uchimaura Made a major mistake in the horizontal bar qualification match, and he only scored 13.866 points after dropping the equipment, missing the horizontal bar final, and his dream of winning the Olympic bar for the fourth time was not realized.
It is worth mentioning that before the Olympic Games, Uchimura Kenhei qualified for the Olympic Games at the last minute, but he admitted that he was not satisfied with his performance, he wanted to retire at this Olympic Games, "My performance is not something I can really accept, when I finish the action, I think I may not go to the Olympic Games." When I was told I was qualifying for the Olympics, in addition to being happy, I was thinking, 'Is this really good?'" I don't feel like people still call me 'King' after today's performance. ”
Frankly speaking, in the olympic horizontal bar arena, which is no longer young, it is unlikely that Uchmura Hanghei will hit the gold medal, but at the Olympic Games held at his doorstep, he ended his Olympic career by dropping the equipment, and Uchmura Hanghei gave people some feelings of tragic heroes. But even so, Japanese netizens have offered comfort to the former "Almighty King", we don't want medals, as long as you are healthy!