Dmitrieva Wins Gymnastics All-Around at Dakar Youth Olympics by About a Point

On Tuesday, November 10, at the Youth Olympic Games in Dakar, Russia's Polina Dmitrieva won the individual all-around in artistic gymnastics. She took gold by a margin of about one point: that is what the Olympic information service writes on olympics.com, while intlgymnast.com puts the gap at "exactly one point."

Let's go through it in order. Silver went to France's Louane Plisson, bronze to Zhong Qi of China. According to olympics.com, Dmitrieva is 14, and she took the lead in the overall standings after the second apparatus, the uneven bars, and never gave it up. In gymnastics, the all-around is the most honest exam: there is nowhere to hide behind a strong apparatus, all four events are scored, and any mistake shows up in the total.

The context matters. A day earlier, Daniil Smirnov won the men's all-around: we wrote about his final the day before. For a team of 13 athletes in nine sports, competing in Dakar under its flag and anthem, that makes two golds in one sport in two days. Earlier, the team's medal haul included wins by swimmers Serafima Fokina and Bogdan Toropkin.

What's next. The Games run until November 13, and gymnastics wraps up with the mixed team event on November 11.