Horror injury overshadows gymnastics silver at Commonwealths

Horror injury overshadows gymnastics silver at CommonwealthsImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Gabriel Langton contested the floor, rings and parallel bars before falling on the horizontal bar in the final rotationByAlex HoadBBC Sport EnglandPublished11 minutes agoA sickening injury to England's Gabriel Langton overshadowed his team's silver medal in the men's team gymnastics final at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.The 19-year-old, from the City of Birmingham Gymnastics Club, needed lengthy treatment on the mat after a horrible fall in the final rotation of the evening at The Arena.Langton fell head first to the floor after missing his catch on the horizontal metal bar, three metres in the air, leading to a lengthy delay to the action as he was tended to by up to a dozen medical staff.He was eventually led away on a trolley after being moved on to a stretcher with his head and neck braced and left to huge applause from the packed crowd who had spent much of the previous 10 minutes in hushed silence.Langton was seen to be conscious and moving his legs and arms before leaving the arena floor, while team officials later said he was moving and speaking to doctors.When competition resumed, his England team-mates were unable to overhaul their deficit to Canada who claimed their first gold medal in the event in 20 years, having finished second to England at the past two games.Langton, a late call-up to Team England in the place of the injured six-time Olympic medallist Max Whitlock, was unable to join his teammates on the podium as England collected their silver medals.Team-mate Luke Whitehouse, who was first on to the apparatus after the competition restarted and posted a relatively low score of 11.700, said: "When something like that happens, you've just got to forget about it and reset. I just had to focus on my routine one skill at a time." Whitehouse added: "From what we've heard, he's doing OK. Gymnastics is such...