Word: supertrick
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...seemed fatally damaged when he fell from the pommel horse during the second day of competition and scored 9.45. But after that debacle he said, "I did not come here to fail." And so he did not. Gushiken is a gymnast of another generation, noted less for the daring supertrick than for the traditional virtues of technical mastery and elegant style. He relentlessly kept the pressure on Vidmar, racking up superior scores like a machine. In a total of 18 routines, he scored 9.90 or better on 13 of them. Vidmar, by being only slightly less consistent, ended up with...
...happiest surprise of the championships was the return of the Chinese. They had not competed in the world championships or Olympics since 1962, and, in a sport in which yesterday's supertrick is today's ordinary item, they were not expected to stir much attention. Chinese Men's Coach Xia Dejun admitted that the gap had hurt his country's development program. Said he: "During the Cultural Revolution, many of the schools were closed, most of the spare-time sports academies were closed, and for five years there was no training for our gymnasts...
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