Olympics-Gymnastics-Hashimoto's gold no match for Biles' bronze

[ASFN Admin]

Japan's all-around champion Daiki Hashimoto ended on a golden note to close off the Tokyo Olympics gymnastics programme with a victory on the horizontal bar, but even the host nation's rising star could not steal the spotlight from American Simone Biles. Japan's male gymnasts are used to hogging all the attention on home soil, but Tuesday at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre was all about Biles and her last appearance in Tokyo after abruptly pulling out of last week's team event. With Biles, considered by many as the greatest gymnast of all time and also lauded around the world for raising mental health awareness during these Olympics, Hashimoto's home-crowd appeal was no match.

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