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Marian Drăgulescu (born December 18 , 1980 in Bucharest ) is a Romania n Gymnast . He won four gold medals at the 2004 European championships, making him one of the favourites for medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics . Drăgulescu helped his team to a bronze medal and was a forerunner in the all around event until a mistake on the high bar, after which he still thrilled the crowd with a difficult routine. He won silver in the men's floor only after a tiebreaker was needed with gold medalist Kyle Shewfelt . On the men's vault he controversially won bronze, over Shewfelt, even after falling badly on his second vault. Both of these results were controversial! Drăgulescu announced his retirement mid 2005, but has since returned and in the world championships in Melbourne in 2005 he won the vault title. He had long been hampered by the lack of a strong second vault, but debuted a new one- a round off half twist entry to forwards two and a half twist. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS Photo 1 |
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