CARLOS Yulo will have four more chances to finally win his first Asian Games gold in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan.
The bemedalled Filipino gymnasts reached the finals in the floor exercise, vault, parallel bars, and team event at the end of Monday’s men’s all-around qualification at the Nagoya General Gymnasium Rainbow Hall.
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The first attempt of the two-time Olympic champion to win Asiad gold ended with a 10th place finish in the individual all-around, but in the process, clinched finals berths in three apparatuses.
Yulo showed why he is the reigning Olympic champion in the floor exercise, placing first in the qualification round with a 14.600.
The 26-year-old Yulo also qualified for the parallel bars final after taking the fifth spot with a score of 14.266.
Yulo had to wait in the vault after a bad landing in his first performance led to an average of 13.649 that put him on the bubble. But the Olympic vault champion barely made it, placing seventh among the eight finalists.
Odds are stacked against Yulo and Co. in the team event after finishing sixth out of eight teams, with China, whose star gymnast Zhang Boheng won the individual all-around gold for the second straight Asiad against hometown bet Oka Shinnosuke, finishing first during the qualifications.
The floor exercise final will be on Thursday where one of the finalists is his brother Eldrew, while the vault and parallel bars are scheduled on Friday.
The team final is scheduled at an earlier day on Wednesday.
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