Ray Zapata

, sitting in a chair, stretched out snot, while his coach,

Benjamin Bango

, claimed.

He still did not know if he would win a medal in the floor final of the Tokyo Games, there were still three gymnasts to compete, but he already guessed that something strange had happened.

That's why, because of the tension, because of the waiting, the tears.

"When the note from the Israeli [

Artem Dolgopyat

] came out, I did not understand that they placed him first and me second. He had presented an exercise with more difficulty than me and if we were tied it meant that my execution had been better. In the tiebreaker In all the history of the gymnast, she has always commanded the execution before the difficulty. But not this time. I've really freaked out a lot. They've gotten a rule that I hadn't seen in my life. In fact, I haven't seen it yet. I've seen, I'm going to look for it now, of course I do, "Zapata declared in a mixed zone that he was" very happy "for the money, but ...

"When we were claiming I thought that the gold could be mine, that they were going to change the order. But no. I was the one who left the track and I would not have even gotten the bronze. I have been denouncing that for a long time, that the judges have not They value me, that I have to make it perfect for them to give me the gold. Let's leave it there, I'll enjoy that and that's it, "added the already Olympic runner-up while his coach detailed what had happened.

Indeed, the Israeli Dolgopyat appeared with a difficulty point (6,600) more than Zapata (6,500) and in effect they ended up tied (14,933), but technically it was not because the Spanish was better in the execution.

In the execution they obtained exactly the same mark (8,433).

Only the Israeli stepped once, with one foot, outside the mat and that infraction carried him a penalty of 0.1 points that does not count for the tiebreaker.

If he had put both feet, they would have subtracted 0.3 points and the gold would have gone to Zapata.

"The tie is what there is. There are tiebreaker criteria and if there is a tie in execution, the note of the Israeli gymnast in difficulty is what he has decided. It is like that, it is what there is," commented coach Benjamin Bango, more restrained than his ward.

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