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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Gymnastics</title>
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		<title>Uchimura dominates; Kato moves into third</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Kohei Uchimura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryohei Kato]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kohei Uchimura showed he is the overwhelming favorite to win a record fourth all-around world gymnastics championship by qualifying for Thursday&#8217;s final by a big margin. Uchimura also qualified for the weekend floor exercise, high bar and parallel bar finals on Tuesday. The Olympic champion is trying to become the first male or female gymnast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uchimura has strong showing in qualifying</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kohei Uchimura]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sam Mikulak competed against his sporting hero at the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships on Monday and it was easy to see why he holds Kohei Uchimura in such awe. The triple defending world and reigning Olympic all-around champion produced his traditional show of elegance and power to sweep past early leader Mikulak, the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gymnastics coach Tomita fondly remembers legendary Aihara</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2013 15:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Gunma Prefecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nobuyuki Aihara]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The late Nobuyuki Aihara, a gymnastics legend, left a great impression on many individuals he met or influenced during his many decades in the sport, including Yoichi Tomita. Aihara&#8217;s death at age 78 on July 16 triggered many memories for Tomita, who followed in Aihara&#8217;s footsteps. &#8220;Mr. Aihara was a great gymnast, probably the best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aihara, decorated Olympic gymnast, dead at 79</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 14:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[1960 Olympics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nobuyuki Aihara]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ex-gymnast Nobuyuki Aihara, a double champion at the 1960 Rome Olympic Games, has died at the age of 79, the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) announced on Thursday. Aihara, who hailed from Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, won gold on the floor exercises in which he excelled and in the team combined event as he helped break the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shirai becomes youngest male gymnast to make national team after floor win</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2013 15:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Kenzo Shirai]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kenzo Shirai, a 16-year-old high school sophomore, won the floor exercise on Sunday at the national apparatus championships. Shirai won with a score of 15.900 points at the meet which is used to select members for Japan&#8217;s team for the world championships in Antwerp, Belgium. He becomes the youngest to compete for the national men&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teramoto, Kato earn worlds berths as Uchimura wins 5th NHK Cup</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 16:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Gymnastics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kohei Uchimura]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kohei Uchimura became the first five-time consecutive men's champion of the NHK Cup. ]]></description>
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		<title>Uchimura chosen as JOC&#8217;s top athlete at 2012 London Games</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 15:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[London Olympic men&#8217;s all-around gymnastics champion Kohei Uchimura was named the Japanese Olympic Committee&#8217;s most outstanding athlete of 2012 on Tuesday. Uchimura won the honor for the second straight year following a meeting of the JOC executive board. He became the first Japanese gymnast to win an individual all-around gold in 28 years and also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gymnast Misawa gets three-month doping ban</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Japan Anti-Doping Agency handed Beijing Olympic rhythmic gymnast Nara Misawa a three-month suspension on Monday. According to JADA, Misawa tested positive in November at the All-Japan championships for the banned stimulant methylephedrine, which can be found in cold medicine. The 23-year-old Misawa finished 22nd in the overall competition at nationals.]]></description>
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		<title>Olympic champ Uchimura&#8217;s wife expecting first child</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gymnast Kohei Uchimura, who added an Olympic gold medal in the men&#8217;s overall competition to his trophy case this summer, announced on Monday that he and his wife are expecting their first child. Uchimura, who has won three consecutive world championship overall gold medals, issued the news through his corporate sponsor, Konami. He was married [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uchimura coasts to 5th national gymnastics title</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three-time all-around world champion Kohei Uchimura sent his London Olympic rivals a timely reminder of his mercurial talents on Sunday, capturing his fifth consecutive title at the national all-around gymnastics championships. Dubbed &#8220;Japan&#8217;s beautiful machine&#8221; by German rival Philipp Boy, Uchimura, the only Japanese gymnast to have already booked his ticket to London, delivered a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uchimura takes first World Cup title</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three-time all-around world champion Kohei Uchimura outclassed a field of elite gymnasts to capture his first World Cup title Sunday. Uchimura collected 93.565 points for the men&#8217;s all-around competition at Ryogoku Kokugikan, finishing 3.467 ahead of runnerup Philipp Boy of Germany, while Daniel Purvis of Britain was third with 89.631. Teenager Shogo Nonomura placed fourth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minobe places second in World Cup</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gymnast Yu Minobe overcame a slow start to finish second in the women&#8217;s all-around event at the World Cup Tokyo meet on Saturday. Minobe, the only competitor from the host country in a field of seven, collected a total of 54.699 points at Ryogoku Kokugikan, 3.566 behind China&#8217;s Huang Qiushuang, who captured the 2011 overall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zou wins horizontal bar; Uchimura takes bronze</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zou Kai led a 1-2 finish for China in the men&#8217;s horizontal bar while three-time all-around champion Kohei Uchimura had to settle for bronze on the final day of the world gymnastic championships on Sunday. Zou was the pride and joy of his country after capturing the day&#8217;s second gold for China, its fourth overall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uchimura earns second gold medal at worlds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reigning all-around champion Kohei Uchimura made an encore performance, winning the men&#8217;s floor exercise to capture his second gold medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo on Saturday. Uchimura, who became the first gymnast in history to win three consecutive world all-around titles a day earlier, won with a total of 15.633 points. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uchimura shrugs off injury worries</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kohei Uchimura is trying to put fitness concerns out of his mind ahead of his quest to become the first gymnast to win three consecutive individual all-around titles at the upcoming world gymnastics championships. The Japanese men&#8217;s team rehearsed Wednesday at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium but Uchimura had to stop in the middle of his floor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gymnastics team earns Olympic bid</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan&#8217;s rhythmic gymnastics team punched its ticket for next year&#8217;s London Olympics after placing fifth in the all-around event Saturday at the world championships in France. Yuka Endo, Airi Hatakeyama, Rie Matsubara, Nina Saeed Yokota and Kotono Tanaka performed without making any major errors at Park &#38; Suits Arena in Montpellier to score 52.725 points. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sibling trio make gymnastics team</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese starlet Rie Tanaka has been named to represent the host country at the upcoming world gymnastics championships along with her older brother Kazuhito and younger brother Yusuke, the Japan Gymnastics Association said Sunday. The association announced a squad of six women &#8212; Tanaka, Koko Tsurumi, Yumi Iizuka, Yu Minobe, Yuko Shintake and Asuka Teramoto [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uchimura cruises to another title</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Double world champion Kohei Uchimura won his third straight men&#8217;s all-around title at the Japan Cup with a dominating mark of 93.150 on Sunday. Uchimura had the highest score in all six disciplines, finishing a comfortable 3.650 points ahead of China&#8217;s Liao Qiuhua to top the podium on the second and final day of the [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reigning individual all-around world champion Kohei Uchimura captured his third consecutive NHK Cup title, while Koko Tsurumi achieved the same feat in the women&#8217;s event on the final day of action on Sunday. Uchimura collected a winning total of 278.750 points at the meet at Yoyogi National Gymnasium, which doubled as a final qualifier for [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reigning gymnastics world champion Kohei Uchimura got off to a flying start in pursuit of his third consecutive NHK Cup title on Saturday, producing the highest score of 92.250 points, despite a fall on the horizontal bar in men&#8217;s individual all-around. Uchimura stands in the lead at the meet at Yoyogi National Gymnasium, which doubles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gymnastics worlds to stay in Tokyo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 00:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world gymnastics championships will be hosted by Tokyo this October as originally planned, despite earlier concerns about high radiation levels following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, the International Gymnastics Federation said Sunday. The FIG found no scientific basis to call off the Oct. 7-16 event at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, which acts as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gymnast Uchimura breezes to title</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reigning all-around world gymnastics champion Kohei Uchimura won his fourth consecutive national title in dominant fashion on Sunday. Uchimura scored 94.000 points to post a two-day total of 188.900 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium. Kenya Kobayashi finished a distant second with 180.750. Uchimura became the sixth man to win four times in a row at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gymnast Tanaka builds on success</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[YAMAGUCHI (Kyodo) Asian Games bronze medalist Rie Tanaka won her first national titles at the all-Japan gymnastics championships on Sunday, winning in the vault and the balance beam. Tanaka, the new face for Japanese women&#8217;s gymnastics, scored 13.837 points on the vault and 14.075 on the beam, following up on her third-place finish in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uchimura wins parallel bar bronze for fourth medal</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[World champion Kohei Uchimura won the men&#8217;s all-around event in dominating fashion at the Japan Cup on Sunday. Uchimura ranked first in five of the six apparatus on his way to a total of 93.450 points in the international meet at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium. The 21-year-old completed a Japan Cup team-individual double for the second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan men defend gymnastics title</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan claimed its second consecutive title in the men&#8217;s gymnastics team event at the 2010 Japan Cup on Saturday. With Kohei Uchimura leading the way, the host scored 276.100 points to finish ahead of runnerup Germany, which trailed by 9.200 in the eight-nation competition at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium. The United States came third with 265.400. [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[World champion Kohei Uchimura won his second consecutive title in the individual all-around at the NHK Cup on Sunday. Uchimura collected 275.575 points for his performances in six disciplines on the last day of the two-day event, which doubled as the final qualifier for the world gymnastics championships in the Netherlands in October. Uchimura booked [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kohei Uchimura won his third straight title and Koko Tsurumi claimed her record-tying fifth consecutive crown at the National Individual Gymnastics Championships on Sunday. Uchimura, the all-around world champion, rebounded from fourth in Saturday&#8217;s preliminaries to collect a two-day winning total of 182.200 points at Yoyogi National Gymnasium. Koji Uematsu took second with 179.925, while [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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