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Krisztian Berki, Olympic pommel horse champion, retires

Hungarian Krisztian Berki, the 2012 Olympic pommel horse champion who last competed on the top international level in 2017, announced his retirement from gymnastics on Thursday.

Berki, now 35, won the London Olympic title in a tiebreak over Louis Smith, denying Great Britain its first Olympic gymnastics title.

Berki earned his third world title on pommel horse in 2014, but failed to qualify for the Rio Games, where Max Whitlock earned gold for Britain. He also didn’t get Hungary’s lone spot in the 2008 Olympics, despite taking silver at the 2007 Worlds.