@gymnastics: Magical Murakami 🇯🇵 captures hearts and minds with historic display 🥈🇯🇵
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Mai Murakami ensured that the build-up in Japan to Gymnastics at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games won’t all be about ‘King’ Kohei Uchimura and ‘Prince’ Kenzo Shirai as she won the women’s All-around World Championship silver medal in Doha.
A talismanic team figure, Murakami displayed huge grace and skill under pressure to deliver four clean routines, banishing memories of 12 months ago in Montreal when she threw away a World Championship All-around medal with an error-ridden display on Balance Beam.
“That has been the only apparatus I did – all year,” Murakami joked in Doha, before she added more seriously, “I worked so hard on it and instead of trying to get a medal I was just focusing on staying on the beam, that is it.
“And I wanted to finish with a smile.”







