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  • 24 May 2013
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UPDATED: 15th May 2012

Team GB gymnasts 'cannot believe' success

Report by Sam Datta-Paulin

Team GB's men's gymnastics team have celebrated the country's first team medal in a century, after claiming bronze at the North Greenwich arena.

After an emotional reunion with their families at Team GB House, Louis Smith, Max Whitlock, Daniel Purvis, Sam Oldham and Kristian Thomas spoke about their historic and somewhat controversial win.

The team scored a total of 271.711, which originally secured them silver. However an appeal by the Japanese team saw them bumped down.

Louis Smith said that really did not matter though, telling reporters that they continued to celebrate at the ringside as whatever happened they had "secured an Olympic medal, which is just unbelievable".

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