Gymnastics: Uchimura's national title important step toward Olympics

Kohei Uchimura, forced to adjust his Olympic expectations due to shoulder injuries, won his fifth national horizontal bar title on Sunday and called it an important step toward the Summer Games.The two-time defending Olympic men's overall champion, Uchimura has set his sights on qualifying instead on the horizontal bar, on which he scored 15.700 points at the national championships at Takasaki Arena in Gunma Prefecture.His first horizontal bar championship in three years came roughly seven months before the start of next summer's postponed Tokyo Olympics on July 23."Setting aside results an…READ FULL ARTICLE