The confusion started when Japan's Uchimura climbed onto the pommel horse, considered the sport's hardest event.

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Oldham made up for his failure in the individual all-around final by taking silver in the men's pommel horse.

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British men's gymnastics has broken out in London, earning the team bronze as well as the two medals Sunday in pommel horse.

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Louis Smith and Max Whitlock added two medals in the pommel horse, silver and bronze respectively, and Beth Tweddle took home bronze in the uneven bars.

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The Taverham High School pupil is believed to have been injured when she landed head first from a pommel horse on to a safety mat on 12 March.

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Smith, who was trained by the club's head coach and Team GB gymnastics coach, Paul Hall, won a team bronze and an individual silver medal in the pommel horse event at London 2012.

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The United States were in silver medal position but poor pommel horse routines from Kei Wen Tan and Raj Bhavsar allowed Japan to finish second after a strong team performance on the high bar.

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The agony of gymnast Naoya Tsukahara, whose hopes for an individual all-around medal were dashed last Wednesday when he inexplicably fell off the pommel horse, was obvious as he seemed to sleepwalk through his other events.

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"We already exceeded our expectations by qualifying, " said British captain Louis Smith, a fan favorite because of his pommel-horse mastery and Mohawk-style coif.

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British fan favorite Louis Smith tied for the highest score in the pommel-horse final but lost a tie-breaker to Hungary's Krisztian Berki, who had a higher execution score.

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