Even through the mask it could be heard clearly: “There is the thing - yes!” Lukas Dauser shouted into the camera for lack of spectators.

Before that, he had taken the medal off the platter and carefully positioned it at the back of the neck under the hood of the training jacket.

Lukas Dauser, second after qualifying on parallel bars, wins Olympic silver.

He is "still so concentrated and focused" on the exercise that he does not yet have the right words ready for what is "pouring into" him. That rarely happens to Dauser. The 28-year-old always seems cleared up, considered and, above all, tidy. The tidy gives Dauser "peace and security". The main thing is not to “let yourself be disturbed”, even if everything does not go as he imagines during the exercise, he said in the run-up to the only equipment final for the German men. "It looks good on me on the bars - I usually get good points, even if it sometimes feels worse to me."

It is important to Dauser that it looks good: the beautiful, precisely vertical line of the body in the handstand on the bars, every swing, be it forwards, backwards, with or without rotation, should always end there: in this calm vertical line of the body which then forms a perfect right angle with the spars.

There is probably no other piece of gymnastics equipment where the ideal forms of body movement are so reminiscent of the stipulations of geometry and proportion.

And no gymnast is currently doing this as well as the gold medalist Zou Jungyuan from China, who won by over half a point.

Ferhat Arican - even more difficult, but imprecise in execution - won the first ever Olympic medal for Turkey at these games with bronze.

Throughout the season you could see how Dauser's exercise became more difficult, safer and better: with a slightly easier version he won bronze at the European Championships in spring, and at the German championships in June he then showed the increased version just as confidently.

Lukas Dauser, now 28 years old and sports soldier, has undergone a number of coaching changes despite all order: like so many good German gymnasts before him, he learned the basics from Kurt Szilier in Unterhaching near Munich.

At the age of 18 he moved to the center in Berlin to see Sebastian Faust, who was soon to turn his back on his coaching job.

Robert Hirsch took over, but last summer Dauser unexpectedly announced the move to Halle.

Since then, gymnastics has been "really fun" for him again.

Hubert Brylok, who has been a base trainer in Halle for decades and himself a former East German selection gymnast, also looked after him in Tokyo and, quite obviously, did everything right. The German Gymnastics Federation (DTB) should be grateful: It was already clear in advance that Lukas Dauser is the only German gymnast who, at least in theory, had the target agreement that the DTB negotiated with the German Olympic Sports Confederation - winning an Olympic medal - , would be able to redeem. In the end, Dauser found two words for his state of mind: “proud” and “happy”.