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TOKYO: World all-around gymnastics champion Kohei Uchimura will putthoughts of personal glory aside at the London Olympics to helpJapan win the men's team gold medal back from arch-rivals China. "I am only thinking about the gold medal in the team event. Sincethe Beijing Olympics we have only managed silver (incompetitions)," Uchimura told reporters at the National TrainingCentre on Wednesday. "I don't want to feel the same disappointment anymore," said the23-year-old, who has won an unprecedented three consecutive worldall-around titles since he finished runner-up to China'snow-retired Yang Wei in Beijing. "I felt happy when I won a team event when I was a student. Ibelieve it feels good for the five of us to win together on theworld stage." Japan lost the men's Olympic team title to China at Beijing 2008after finishing runners-up to them at the world championships in2007. They also got second place in 2010 and 2011. Team events werenot contested in 2009. Uchimura, aiming to become Japan's first men's all-around championon the Olympic stage since 1984, said Japan failed to catch Chinaat the 2010 and 2011 worlds because of mistakes on the horizontalbar. At home in Tokyo last year, Uchimura and Yusuke Tanaka fell fromthe high bar, their last piece of apparatus. China, a team ofevent-by-event specialists, edged Japan by just two points for afifth straight title. In 2010, Kazuhito Tanaka lost his grip on the bar and fell. "We will have to gain points on the floor and try not to be outdoneon the horizontal bar," Uchimura said. "It is important for us toget ahead of China even by 0.1 point on each piece of apparatus andmake no mistakes." He said he was concerned about the foreign-made apparatus that willbe used in London. "Basically, they are more unwieldy than Japanese-made apparatus andI need to apply more strength in using them," said Uchimura, whohas been testing imported kit for three weeks. "They are a littlemore burdensome on my body." "But I know I will get used to them along the way. At the 2009worlds (in London), it took me about a month to get used to them,"said the 161cm and 55kg gymnast, who also won the world floorexercise gold last year and hopes to compete in all six individualapparatus events in London. About his potential rivals, he only said: "I am not concerned aboutthem much. I only seek to give an ideal performance. Whatever othergymnasts may do, it doesn't change what I do." For him, London is a happy hunting ground where he won his firstworld all-around title at the O2 Arena in 2009. "The venue will be used for the Olympics again," said Uchimura. "Imanaged to perform well there and I believe I can do so this time,too." He was the youngest among Japan's male gymnastics at the BeijingGames but now is the only one with Olympic experience in the squadfor London. "Four years ago, I just followed other gymnasts. This time, I'm thefirst to step into the gym and start training so I can leadeveryone else." - AFP/fa. The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as EL Driver , Ultrasonic Cleaning, and more. For more , please visit China LED manufacturers today!
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