An untraditional gymnastics meet produced familiar top-line results: Kohei Uchimura leading a victorious team and hitting a fist-pumping high bar routine.
In a mixed-gender team event in Tokyo dubbed the Friendship and Solidarity Competition, Uchimura’s “Solidarity” team of 15 gymnasts beat “Friendship” by 2.3 points. Full results are here.
The meet blended 30 elites from the world’s dominant gymnastics nations — the U.S., China, Japan and Russia — in the closest thing to a return to international gymnastics in eight months.
Spectators, reportedly up to 2,000, were allowed inside Yoyogi National Gymnasium for one of the first international sports events held inside the 2021 Olympic host nation since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.