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Romania shine, China fade in gymnastics finals
Romania became the top winner Monday night in the last five gymnastics finals as Catalina Ponor collected two golds in the beam and floor. Ponor, 17, the triple champion at the 2004 European Championships of the team, beam and floor, made the same hat-trick in Athens. A specialist of both beam and floor, the lovely Romanian in a glittering black outfit, became the focus of the last five finals today. When she executed her floor routine, all the spectators clapped their hands in the rhythm of the music. And she awarded her team two gold medals with 9.787 points for the beam and 9.750 points from the floor. "I feel so great today. And I hope I can do better in next year's World Championships," Ponor said. In an eye-catching contrast, China, also a powerhouse of gymnastics, saw only one bronze tonight coming from its genius Li Xiaopeng on parallel bars. Li, 23, who has collected 13 gold medals in the Olympics and the World Championships, sat down on his gold hopeful event of vault, finishing only the seventh. In the five finals of the night -- the men's vault, parallel bars and horizontal bar and women's floor and beam, all the Chinese gymnasts finished empty-handed, except the bronze from Li in the bars. Besides Ponor's two golds, the other three went to Gervasio Deferr of Spain on men's vault, Valeri Goncharov of Ukraine on parallel bars, and Igor Cassina of Italy on horizontal bar. At the end of the 10-day artistic gymnastics competition, Romania got four gold medals while the United States collected two golds. The remaining eight were split into Japan, China, Italy, Spain, Canada, France, Greece and Ukraine, one apiece. |
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