Here’s the golden Olympic floor exercise of Carlos Yulo that made him snatch the top spot.
CARLOS YULO – The Filipino gymnast delivered a smooth and almost perfect performance in the Olympic floor exercise.
Gymnastics star Carlos Yulo bags the first Olympic gold medal for the Philippines in the Olympic Games Paris 2024. This is also the first for the country from a male athlete and the first in artistic gymnastics.
Overall, this is the PH’s second gold following Hidilyn Diaz’s gold in weightlifting in the women’s 55-kilogram division in Tokyo three years ago.
Yulo scored 15.000 in floor exercise finals of Paris Olympics – 6.600 from difficulty and 8.400 from execution. Next to him in silver is Israel’s Artem Dolgopyat with a score of 14.966 and for bronze is Great Britain’s Jake Jarman with the score 14.933.
He executed his performance with sharp precision in impeccable forms. His double twist forwards to double front tucks were defying gravity gathering claps from the audience. But the highlight of his whole performance was the last set of tumbles and spins combination.
He ended his routine with a perfect landing.
The men’s floor exercise was held at the Bercy Arena in Paris 2024 on Saturday, August 3 (Philippine time).
Watch his powerful performance below:
Caloy is the first gymnast to win an Olympic medal for the Philippines, the country’s second gold medal from the Olympics.
Some of his other golden achievements are:
- 2019 World Championships (floor)
- 2021 World Championships (vault)
- 2022 Asian Championships (floor, vault, parallel bars)
- 2023 Asian Championships (floor, vault, parallel bars)
- 2024 Asian Championships (all-around, floor, vault, parallel bars)
- 2019 SEA Games (all-around, floor)
- 2021 SEA Games (floor, still rings, all-around, vault, horizontal bars)
- 2023 SEA Games (all-around, parallel bars)
- 2024 FIG World Cup – Doha leg (parallel bars)
- 2023 FIG World Cup – Baku leg (vault, parallel bars)
- 2023 FIG World Cup – Doha leg (floor
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