SUPER Saturday didn’t quite turn out how we remembered it four years on, but Max Whitlock was doing his best to make up for it all on his own with a very special Sunday.

Only Mo Farah was able to retain the gold medal he won on a memorable night in London back in 2012 on Saturday, as teammates Jessica Ennis-Hill and Greg Rutherford had to settle for silver and bronze respectively this time around.

But if the nation was flat then less than 24 hours later we were as high as Whitlock in full flight during one of his floor routines, the latest of which saw him write his name into the record books.

The 23-year-old became Great Britain’s first Olympic gymnastics champion with a score of 15.633 in the floor final at the Rio Olympic Arena, in fact it was the nation’s first medal of any colour on the apparatus.

But he wasn’t done there, returning just over an hour later to collect gold in the pommel horse final with a score of 15.966, just 0.133 ahead of teammate Louis Smith.

It took three golds from three athletes in 44 minutes to make the public believe in the Olympic spirit again in 2012.

Fast forward to Rio 2016 and Whitlock was doing it all by himself, and in only slightly more time.

“It was quite difficult that I couldn’t take in what I had done on the floor as I had to get ready for pommel,” said Whitlock, who won team and pommel bronze at London 2012.

“And it was made that bit harder because it literally hit me like a ton of bricks because I didn’t watch any of the other routines so I didn’t know what had come before or after me.

“Scott [coach: Hann] told me what I had done and it was literally crazy, and that is history for me which makes it all the more special.

“But I knew I had another job to do so I went back into the training gym and refocused and started warming up pommel because I had one more routine to do and now I can finish this Olympics with a smile on my face.

“This has undone my own expectations, it really, really has. This is my first floor final in an Olympic Games and last year was a first floor final at a World Championships and I managed to get silver there.

“An Olympic Games only comes round every four years so it makes it all the more special and I really don’t know what to say, I am really speechless, it is just incredible. I feel complete.”

Whitlock’s Rio Olympic Games is now over with the new global star having also finished fourth in the team event as well as wining bronze in the all-around.

That would suggest there is even more to come from Whitlock and now that he and Great Britain has two Olympic gold medals – what do they say about London buses? – he is hungry for more.

"I’ll have a bit of time out from training now but that’s not me done,” he added.

“I will be back in the gym. There is always stuff to learn in gymnastics and there is always stuff for me to learn.

“I say this after every competition it motivates me more after every major championship to go back in the gym and that is how I feel now.”

While fellow Brit Kristian Thomas failed to trouble the leaderboard in the floor final with a seventh-place finish, Smith pushed Whitlock all the way in the pommel showpiece.

And Whitlock was quick to praise his teammate for pushing him to previous unimaginable heights.

“Louis is an absolute credit and it is tough competition between the pair of us to be brutally honest,” Whitlock remarked.

“We train together, we spur each other and that is ultimately a great thing for British gymnastics and that is how we try and look at it.

“I didn’t see his routine but he must have done a good job to score that big score and then the pressure was on.

“But one two in the world last year and one two at the Olympics here is amazing for our sport.”

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