Gymnast Louis Smith has been slammed for not shaking team mate Max Whitlock's hand after Max beat him to gold in the pommel horse in Rio.
Smith burst into tears after winning the silver medal and losing out to Whitlock for gold. Whitlock was then forced to comfort him as his gold was announced. It caused outrage on Twitter with people accusing Smith of lacking sportsmanship.
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Louis has since taken to Twitter to highlight Whitlock's win:
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Following the competition he commented to the BBC: "There many different emotions. I would have liked to get a gold."
"I received so many negative comments, about team selection saying I shouldn't even be in the team and then to have messed up in the team final and then to have had a week until now, I was dealing with a lot emotionally, mentally. It just means so much."
"The amount of pride I'm feeling right now - I've been speaking to my mum quite a lot, she's at home, she didn't come out. She's been worried sick and just to go through that ... it means so much."
