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EUROS TEAM SILVER

I've caught up with the half of the TF i missed and i'm proud of our team for doing all they could given the circumstances! They should all be very proud of years of work carrying Turkish gymnastics to this moment ❤❤❤

It's so sad to see Abdelrahman Elgamal crying and trying to leave the arena and saying "what can i even say?" during the interviews. In a previous interview i saw his excitement to finally make his proper debut here after finally being released by Egypt to compete for Turkey this year. To get injured before competition must've been devastating and of course it's not ideal to have ibrahim improvise a floor and ümit vault but I was seriously wincing at Abdelrahman's dismounting from every other event, I just hope he hasn't worsened his situation. With them all falling off high bar and other mistakes they ended up scoring 7 whole points less that in QF but they're only now getting the hang of team finals and I'm glad these 5 get to call themselves Turkey's first ever European team medallists 😌🥰🇹🇷

As İbrahim said, "Yes, we have missed a gold medal but we have written history for Turkey in artistic gymnastics. The fact that we are upset with silver shows what a great level we have come to."

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Turkish MAG team is at a camp in switzerland and ümit şamiloğlu just posted this 😂 the caption says "this cold isn't for people from izmir"

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Ümit Şamiloğlu had said that he was happy to make the HB final when he's almost 40 years old and was very jetlagged 😅 now after the final he's tweeted that he came 4th due to the angle he finished a skill and the pause he had and that he'll retire in 3 months 😭💔 i'll miss him, he was like the dad of the team 💛

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IM LIVING

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Ümit Şamiloğlu with a contender for best high bar save 3 months after his shoulder surgery 😦

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As a break from our scheduled discourse here is our proud Turkish team 😄🇹🇷🇹🇷

"This team wrote history"

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News clip with Ümit Şamiloğlu after his recent retirement, translated by me:

"The Mediterranean Games held in Mersin were very unique for me. You win some [international] medals over the years, even at the European Championships, but when you return home nearly no one has even heard of it. So, competing in front of our crowd for the first time in the Mediterranean Games was very special to me, with a different enthusiasm. At that point I started realizing how football players feel. [laughs] You form an emotional bond with the spectators. To be able to make them cheer, cry, feel pride is a feeling I can't forget. Being in front of a big crowd and making them feel these beautiful emotions is something else entirely, I wished all competitions would be held like this in Turkey.

It's time for me to finalize a 32 year sports career. 32 years ago, it all started with a simple mat in Ağrı with my dad's interest in sports. It's an interesting story, a kid from Ağrı starting gymnastics when there aren't proper gyms in the country. [Ağrı is a province on the eastern border of Turkey, far from metropolitan resources]

It shows what can produced out of this country if given the chance, and that there are such chances. I experienced the circumstances of that time which were nothing comparable to today. I hope this can be an example for our youth. Another interesting point is that I started at 10 years old, but when you love and believe in something, there isn't anything you can't overcome.

If the physical conditions of the human body allowed it, I think I'd do gymnastics until the end of my life. An author can write until the end of their life, a vocalist can sing until the end of their life but we don't have that opportunity."

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Ümit Şamiloğlu, the first Turkish gymnast to medal at Euros, has officially retired at age 41