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Japan won their eighth Olympic men’s gymnastics team gold on Monday in Paris after China threw away victory with a poor horizontal bars segment on the last rotation. China, who produced stunning efforts on the rings and parallel bars, had to settle for silver amid high drama and the United States finished third for their first medal since 2008. China’s impressive Liu Yang refused to blame his team-mates for the late failure. “I don’t think we need to comfort each other,” he said. “We are a team, and we bear all the mistakes or poor performances together. So now, we move on and focus on the ind…

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