Gymnastics Japan and the men's group won the silver medal by competing with a strong team while all four members did not have a lot of experience on the international stage at the first Olympic appearance.

On the other hand, it misses the top by a slight difference of about 0.1 from the Russian Olympic Committee for gold medals, and it is necessary to identify detailed issues such as the performance of the technique for regaining the gold medal at the next Olympics.

Japan won the gold medal in the men's group of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, but after that, Kohei Uchimura, who was an ace, suffered an injury and the growth of young athletes was sluggish, so he continued for two consecutive world championships after Russia and China. It was a difficult situation to win the gold medal at the Tokyo Games, such as finishing 3rd.



However, teenage players such as 19-year-old Daiki Hashimoto and 18-year-old Takeru Kitazono positively grasp the period that was postponed for one year due to the influence of the new coronavirus, and raise the difficulty of the technique. By spending time on, we have narrowed the gap with the top of the world.

The D score, which indicates the difficulty of the technique that was said to be different from other teams, is 109.3.


It surpassed 108.1 of the Russian Olympic Committee and 109.1 of China, and became one of the factors of the silver medal.



On the other hand, in the finals of this tournament, there were many scenes where the beauty, which can be said to be synonymous with gymnastics Japan, was missed.



In gymnastics, there is a D score that indicates the difficulty of the technique and an E score that indicates the accuracy and beauty of the technique.



Japan finished without major mistakes such as the fall of pommel horses and horizontal bars, but there were many small landing mistakes and posture disturbances, and a slight deduction continued.

On the other hand, the Russian Olympic Committee will stop the landing at key points and endure without losing its posture, centered on ace Nikita Nagorny, who is an individual gold medalist at the 2019 World Championship. , Sustained concentration and showed polite performance.



In the D-score, Japan led the Russian Olympic Committee by 1.2, but the total E-score led by the Russian Olympic Committee by more than 1.3, and in the end it was not a gold medal by about 0.1 difference.

"0.1 more. This 0.1 has a



lot

of weight."

I felt that the words of Hashimoto, who played a central role in the members, already contained the idea of ​​regaining the gold medal at the Paris Olympics.



The average age of the representative members of Japan this time is over 21 years old.

It will be interesting to see if the members with little international experience can connect the weight of 0.1 that they felt on the special big stage to the next Olympics.