Zou wins another gold medal

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Zou Kai won his showdown with Japan's Kohei Uchimura to give China a second gymnastics gold medal.

05 August,2012 06:53 pm

Zous gravity-defying tumbles and balancing strength manoeuvres allowed him to become only the second man, after theSoviet Unions Nikolai Andrianov in the 1970s, to win successive Games titles on the apparatus with a score of 15.933.Uchimura had the same 15.800 score as Russias Denis Ablyazin but was awarded the silver on the tiebreak rule.The result meant Uchimura will leave London with one gold and two silvers as he did not qualify for any other apparatus final.Ablyazin, who scraped into the final thanks to the tiebreak rule after three gymnasts finished with the same score in qualifying, leapt into the arms of his coach when he realised he had secured the bronze.