Japanese teenager Daiki Hashimoto had no time for tears as he became the youngest ever men's all-around Olympic gymnastics champion with a superb final horizontal bars routine at the Tokyo Games on Wednesday.
The nerveless 19-year-old edged out China's Xiao Ruoteng with Russian world champion Nikita Nagornyy taking bronze, and kept dry-eyed on the podium despite the enormity of his accomplishment.
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