“Being able to play with the bests is already an achievement for me. It was a pretty good performance but unfortunately, I didn’t reach my personal target score,” Yulo said in his Instagram post.

The 21-year old Yulo tallied 14.966 points in the parallel bars.

While the two-time Olympian Yusuke Tanaka finished as the victor of the tournament with a 15.400 score and Kaito Sugimoto with the same points.

And even though Yulo was not able to achieve his planned feat, still a lesson learned.

“I’ll definitely be using this experience to improve on my skills for future events.”

Also, the national association greeted him through a Facebook post stating that “Great performance, Caloy! We can’t wait to see you defy gravity in the Olympics.”