This afternoon, in the men's qualifying tournament on the horizontal bar for the Tokyo Olympic Games, Uchmura Made a major mistake and dropped his equipment, and he failed to qualify for the horizontal bar final.
After Yang Wei, men's gymnastics belongs to the era of Uchimura Hanghei, from 2009 to 2016, in the world competition for 8 years, the individual all-around event is difficult to meet the opponent, won the men's all-around gold medal in london and Rio Two Olympic Games, and also led the Japanese men's team to win the men's team championship at the Rio Olympic Games. At that time, he was a man at the top, with a smooth career and a good state, and he was full of expectations to achieve another success with the Japanese men's gymnastics team in front of his father and fellow countrymen at the doorstep, even if he was over thirty years old at the time of the Tokyo Olympics.
However, the injury has entangled the all-around king, experienced the recovery of the shoulder injury, he felt that his body can no longer bear the burden of six individual daily training and competitions, chose to withdraw from the Tokyo Olympic Games all-around event competition, specializing in his own horizontal bar single event, looking forward to achieving the long-cherished wish of winning the championship at home.
At the previous all-Day Gymnastics Championships, Uchimura finally took the last train as he wished, and participated in the Olympic Games for the first time as a single athlete. According to Agence France-Presse Tokyo, Uchom Kenhei was eliminated from the horizontal bar competition on the first day of the Tokyo Olympics and did not participate in the parallel bars competition. He has said he will retire after the Olympics.
A generation of legends may end here.