A FALL on the dismount of his opening pommel horse event plus a penalty in the vault dragged Carlos Edriel Yulo down from a possible top 10 finish to 12th overall with a tally of 83.032 points in the men’s all-around finals of the Paris Olympic Games men’s artistic gymnastics meet at the Bercy Arena early yesterday morning (Wednesday night in France).
Beginning with the pommel horse, not one of his strong points, Yulo looked poised to come away with a clean routine until he lost his grip as he was about to finish and fell from the apparatus for his worst score of 11.90 points — 22nd out of 24 entries — among the six events.
The pint-sized Pinoy ace recovered his bearing by scoring 13.933 in the rings, giving him a big boost for his next apparatus, the vault, the event where he pocketed the gold in the 2021 world competition in Kitakyushu, Japan.
Since this was the individual all-around finals, Yulo had only one try and scored 14.766 points while earning a .300 penalty.
Without the point deduction, he could have moved up to as high as 83.332 points in a tie with Italian Matteo Giubellini, who took 10th place.
A faulty third pass in the men’s floor exercise, resulting in a faulty landing, netted him 14.333 points — seventh among the 22 entries — while his other scores were 14.500 and 13.600 in the parallel bars and horizontal bar, respectively.
