Carlos Yulo of the Philippines during the SEA Games artistic gymnastics all-around category in Rizal Memorial Stadium on December 1, 2019. Czar Dancel, ABS-CBN News/File

Filipino gymnast Carlos Yulo returns to action on Wednesday at the Bercy Arena in Paris to vie in the first of his three finals events in men's artistic gymnastics -- the individual all-around.

Gymnastics Association of the Philippines (GAP) President Cynthia Carrion is keeping her expectations realistic for the event, acknowledging that Yulo has a slim chance in the individual all-around.

But their hopes are higher in the floor exercise and vault finals, where fingers are crossed that Yulo can win medals for the Philippines in the 2024 Paris Olympics.

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The individual all-around finals, featuring 24 finalists, is expected to be a showdown among the Chinese and Japanese aces with Fil-British bet Jake Jarman as a dark horse. 

The event starts at 11:30 p.m., Philippine time.

Daiki Hashimoto has a shot at becoming the third Japanese to be back-to-back champ in this event. Sawao Kato achieved the feat in 1968 and 1972, and Kohei Uchimura replicated it in 2012 and 2016. 

Shinnosuke Oka is another Japanese contender in the all-events topped by Boheng Zhang of China in the qualifying, with compatriot Ruoteng Xiao coming at fourth. 

Also in the mix in the final are Great Britain's Joe Fraser, Ukraine's Oleg Verniaiev and Illia Kovtun, Italians Yumin Abbadini and Mario Macchiati, Americans Frederick Richard and Paul Juda, Swiss Matteo Giubellini and Florian Langenegger, Hungarian Krisztofer Meszaros, Australia's Jesse Moore, the Netherland's Casimir Schmidt and Frank Rijken, Kazakh Milad Karimi, Brazil's Diogo Soares, Canada's Felix Dolci and Rene Cournoyer, and Germany's Nils Dunkel. 

Zhang had a qualifying score of 88.597 as against Yulo's 83.631. Oka scored 86.865, Hashimoto 85.064, Xiao 84.898 and Jarman 84.897.

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