Trampolinist Bryony Page ecstatic after finally winning gold

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Team GB's Jake Jarman clinches bronze in men's floor final narrowly pipping teammate Luke Whitehouse who finished sixth Israel's Artem Dolgopyat took silver while Philippines's Carlos Edriel Yulo won But Whitehouse, 22, fell short after judges downgraded his difficulty score Comes after Bryony Page secured an emotional gold in trampolining yesterday   Team GB's Jake Jarman has clinched bronze in the men's floor final just a day after Bryony Page secured trampolining gold.  The 22-year-old performed a sparkling routine which peaked with a triple-twisting double-back somersault to sneak into the medal places with just one athlete to come.  And that gymnast was teammate Luke Whitehouse who seemed for all the world to have bagged a medal to knock Jarman out of his bronze spot.   But it was heartbreak for the Englishman after the judges downgraded his difficulty score, leaving him down in sixth on a total of 14.466.  Jarman had entered the final with the highest score in qualifying and also topped the floor standings during the men's all-around final.

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00:00this morning but you have achieved your dream, you've got that gold, tell me how it feels.

00:05It hasn't sunk in, I don't know how it feels. I just know I'm really happy, shocked, surprised,

00:13disbelief, just everything, I just can't believe that it's actually happened.

00:17You was very emotional out there, just tell us about that.

00:20Yeah I got really emotional, I think it's just like finding out the scores and

00:25knowing that I could become an Olympic champion was just the most amazing feeling and then

00:29for it to actually happen, I couldn't believe it and the crowd was so special,

00:33there were so many GB people in the crowd so it was amazing to have all of that support and

00:41the noise was incredible so it just felt really special to be part of that and

00:47really emotional when I found out I was Olympic champion, it just hasn't sunk in at all. I keep

00:53looking at the medal and trying to let it sink in a bit but I'm kind of waiting for that moment.

00:58You momentarily forgot that there was another job, what was going on in your head?

01:02Yeah so I think I was just so in the moment that when I saw my score crop up to the top I thought

01:09oh I've become Olympic champion and yeah so I was celebrating a little bit prematurely,

01:14so I was celebrating too early and then realised oh yeah there is another competitor to go and

01:18she's actually really capable of hitting that score but I was just, I think there was a mixture

01:23of I'm just happy that I've become an Olympic medalist and the relief of that as well as the

01:29joy and the excitement so the emotions that you saw were for everything, not just me thinking

01:36that I'd become an Olympic champion but for me thinking I'd become an Olympic medalist,

01:39for seeing my score, for just feeling happy about the routine that I performed and just

01:44everything in that moment. You completed the set and you said that it was the emotions coming into

01:50this and you've said previously that you have struggled with confidence despite your talent and

01:54what you've achieved so far, you know injury problems as well this year, how much pressure

01:58did you feel coming into this to you know how much it means to you, I can see that today

02:02to actually and you've done it now but how much pressure did you put under yourself?

02:05Yeah I didn't feel pressure from other people, just myself like putting, I had expectations

02:09obviously coming from a world championships where I'd won in front of a home crowd, like

02:14I know that I have the capabilities to be able to do that at the Olympic Games but

02:19the struggles of like, my ankle just didn't feel the same when I came back from world championships

02:23I had like a week off and came back and just didn't feel the same, been struggling with pain,

02:27been struggling with different issues so to be able to kind of get myself into the right

02:32physical state, thankfully like have an amazing support team around me that's able to manage

02:37that, the volume of my training to manage like what I'm doing to rehab my ankle and

02:43the physio treatments that I need, the S&C program that I need, everything to kind of

02:47get it all ready to peak at this competition and it just worked so just like yeah over the moon

02:53that I actually were able to pull it off but yeah confidence going in was low because we're

02:57struggling with training, struggling to get the numbers that I wanted to get in because of having

03:00to like manage that volume so yeah it was just found it, found it difficult to be able to believe

03:06that it could happen for these games because the prep hasn't been the best.

03:10Makes it even more sweeter and just one more for me Bryony, what next for you, I know that it's just

03:15want to enjoy your success now but you know looking ahead what's the journey?

03:19Yeah so yeah we'll definitely celebrate in the next week I'm staying in France so I'll be able

03:25to watch all of the Team GB sports and just supporting everyone that's competing

03:30and just really looking forward to like being part of Team GB as a fan as well as an athlete so

03:36yeah really looking forward to that and then I've got a few more competitions that I want to do in

03:40trampolining, a few more skills that I want to get and break that that ceiling that is currently

03:45on mine and the women's trampolining and see how far I can get, maybe join the circus if they'll

03:50have me and I still have my eyes set on LA and maybe Brisbane as well so I don't know how I'm

03:55going to squeeze it all in but I'm going to try.

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