06-08-2016 23:11 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Olympic - Uchimura fall caps a day of errors for favourites Japan

By Pritha Sarkar RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Dethroning champions China has been the number one target for Japan at the Rio Olympics but after a day of falls and botched landings in men's qualifying on Saturday, Kohei Uchimura and his teammates were left with sore bodies and bruised egos. Uchimura suffered the most spectacular of falls from the horizontal bar -- an apparatus on which he is the world champion -- as he lost his grip following a release and catch manoeuvre and produced a deafening t
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