Carlos Yulo’s gold rush has momentarily screeched to a halt.
It came to be after the Filipino Paris Olympics double gold medalist was denied the floor exercise gold by Great Britain’s Jake Jarman and settled for a bronze in the 53rd Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia yesterday.
The 25-year-old spectacle from Leveriza in Manila had a 14.533, which wasn’t enough to prevent Jarman from seizing the gold with a 114.866 in the Worlds and in the same apparatus the Filipino used to dominate.
Another Brit in Luke Whitehouse took the silver with a 14.666.
It was sweet revenge for Jarman, who had a bronze in Paris where he was reduced to a spectator by Yulo’s magnificence after the Filipino captured one of the two golds he snared in the French capital.
It must be Yulo’s hand, which he sprained going into the annual event.
It will be the same pair of hands that he will use when he shoots for a medal, possibly a gold, in the vault finals today.
Yulo is eyeing his third gold in the world championships following his exploits in Stuttgart, Germany in 2019 and Kitakyushu, Japan three years ago.