One more bright performance and one more silver medal for Ukraine at Rio 2016 Olympic Games!

Yesterday, the 10th of August, Ukrainian gymnast Oleg Verniaiev performed at the Rio Olympic Arena. The result is impressive: our sportsman was really close to getting a gold medal, but the final scoreboard showed that Uchimura is beating Verniaiev by just 0.099 points.

Verniaiev had done his best in case that he was competing with Kohei Uchimura – gymnast, considered by many to be the greatest gymnast of all time. He is a seven-time Olympic medalist in all-around, team, and floor exercise, a 19-time World medalist (all-around, team, floor, high bar, and parallel bars) and he had won three golds and four silvers.

At the stage of Rio Olympic Arena was hot competitive atmosphere: Verniaiev led from the second rotation on, answering every time it seemed Uchimura was ready to take over. When Uchimura drilled a 15.566 on vault, Verniaiev got the result 15.5.  Uchimura ended a high-flying set with a result 15.8, and Oleg Verniaiev needed a 14.9 to win Ukraine`s first all-around Olympic title and bring a gold medal to the Motherland. But instead he got 14.8. The total result for Uchimura is 92.365, and our Ukrainian sportsman got the second place in the competition with the total result 92.266 – there is a tiny gap, 0.1 gap.

Anyway, Japanese and Ukrainian gymnasts made an amazing show and as Oleg Verniaiev said, Uchimura really deserved the gold. However, Uchimura said, that he really had no confidence that he would be able to beat Oleg in the future. “I’m quite happy I managed to make Kohei nervous,” Verniaiev said with a laugh. And not only sportsmen were nervous. Beinside team supports Ukraine at Rio 2016 Olympic Games and we are proud about such a great results of Ukraine Team!