Max Whitlock had already won gold for his floor exercises when he secured a second individual medal on the pommel horse BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty ImagesIt was a weekend not only of medals for Britain’s athletes in Rio, but also of smashed records — and none broken more spectacularly than by the 23-year-old gymnast dubbed Magic Max. Max Whitlock took Britain’s first ever gymnastics gold in the men’s individual floor exercises — and then followed it up almost immediately by winning gold on the pommel horse. His team-mate Louis Smith took silver in the second event, as he had done at London 2012, but looked crushed that he had not taken top prize. Justin Rose snatched the gold medal on the final green after a tense battle with Sweden’s Henrik Stenson Scott Halleran/Getty ImagesWhitlock had already made history when he became Britain’s first all-around individual…

Source: The Times August 14, 2016 23:06 UTC