January 5, 2005
At full stretch
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August 22. Russia's Svetlana Khorkina performs in the final of the women's uneven bars at the Olympic Indoor Hall in Athens.
Khorkina was aiming to become the first gymnast to win the same apparatus title at three consecutive Games and had entered the asymmetric bars final as the favourite.
But only seconds into her complex display between the bars, the 25 year old lost her grip to finish last out of the eight competitors.
She finished second to American Carly Patterson in the women's all-round gymnastics competition, and later accused the judges of robbing her of the gold medal and said 'everything was decided in advance.'
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