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RIO DE JANEIRO -- French gymnast Samir Ait Said landed awkwardly on a vault, and a sickening snap echoed throughout the arena. A split second later, he was clutching his contorted left leg, his tibia fractured and his Olympics over.Said was trying to fly over the vault and complete two backflips in a pike at mens qualifying Saturday. The injury highlighted the dangers of a sport that steps into the worlds spotlight every four years and led some to question if the current scoring system is making gymnasts push themselves too far.Said was attempting his second vault when he crumpled. He used one hand to hold his leg just below the knee and put the other one to his head as he grimaced in pain in the moments just after the fall. Medical personnel rushed to help him, placing him on a stretcher and carrying him off the podium to loud applause from the crowd.It is catastrophic ... our mental state is very bad but we each have a target and we have to carry on for ourselves, teammate Cyril Tommasone said.The International Gymnastics Federation moved away from the 10.0 scoring system a decade ago, favoring a new format that splits each gymnasts score into two parts. The first score is based on the difficulty of skills a gymnast completes. The second score is based on how well they execute them.Many gymnasts try to pack as many skills into their routine as they can to pile up points. German gymnast Fabian Hambuechen, a four-time Olympian and two-time medalist on high bar, wonders if the sport has become almost too dangerous, with gymnasts attempting skills they havent yet mastered, a stark contrast from the old system that put an emphasis on perfection instead of daring.Its a pity that gymnastics developed like that, Hambuechen said. Its always more, more difficulty, more risk, higher. Everyone wants new records and stuff so its getting dangerous. Thats what really is annoying. I dont like the system anymore. So I hope that it will change after Rio again.He misses the days before the difficulty score was implemented and thinks returning to the old scale would make things safer for the athletes.Im one of the guys who still loves the 10.0, he said. That was a simple system. It was like everyone had the chance to get the high score of 10.0 with different ways. Now everyone knows if you want to have a high D score you have to do these skills and these skills are sometimes too dangerous for some people.French team leader Corrine Moustard-Callon didnt have many details on Saids injury, but lamented the terrible way his Olympics ended after years of hard work.He made a technical mistake, Moustard-Callon said. He is in the hospital with a doctor now. We will give more news when we have it. We dont know what happened, except that it was his tibia. We will do more exams to see if it is just the bone.Saids injury wasnt the only one that ended Olympic hopes. Germanys Andreas Toba tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during the floor exercise.I cried like a little kid, Toba said. The injury on my knee is big, but the emotional injury is way bigger.Toba competed in the pommel horse after the injury, a gutsy move that impressed his teammates and the crowd.That was amazing, Hambuechen said. 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PHILADELPHIA -- One month into the season, the Philadelphia Flyers are searching for a goaltender who can pull them out of mediocrity.On Saturday night theyll be facing a team whose goaltender is playing his best hockey of the season.Steve Mason was torched for six goals in the Flyers 6-3 loss to the Maple Leafs in Toronto Friday night, which makes it all but certain Michal Neuvirth will get the start against the Wild. It will be the Flyers fifth back-to-back games of the season.Minnesota, meanwhile, is expected to turn to goaltender Devan Dubnyk, who has given up six goals in his last 21 periods and is 4-2-0 with an 0.84 goals-against average, .974 save percentage and three shutouts in his last six starts.Neuvirth is 4-2-0 with a 3.57 GAA and .859 save percentage. Hes coming off a 5-4 loss to the Canadiens on Saturday, which came after Neuvirth strung together three straight wins.Led by two goals from Wayne Simmonds, who now leads the team with eight, and another by Travis Konecny, the Flyers (6-7-2) carried a 3-2 lead into the third period in Toronto on Friday night, only to see the Maple Leafs score four third-period goals on Mason, who has surrendered three or more goals in six of his eight starts this season.You cant win is you only play 40 minutes, Konecny told the Philadelphia Inquirer after picking up his fourth goal.The Wild (7-4-1) are coming off perhaps their most impressive win of the season, a 4-2 win in Pittsburgh on Thursday.dddddddddddd. Eric Staal had three points and broke a 2-2 tie in the third period and Dubnyk turned aside 39 of 41 shots in the win.Thats a difficult task after as many days off as we had to go up against that group, Dubnyk told the Star Tribune. It was a tough first 10 minutes. They were flying, and we were trying to get our feet and hands going again.But I thought we reacted real well after their (first) power-play goal and perfectly continued to get better as each minute went by in that game. Real big win for us.The Wild recorded a season-high 44 shots in the win, which snapped a two-game losing streak, and were credited with 32 hits.The Wild allowed two power-play goals to the Penguins but still lead the NHL on the penalty kill.Flyers coach Dave Hakstol shook things up against the Maple Leafs. Left winger Michael Raffl was replaced by Nick Cousins and defenseman Brandon Manning, who struggled Tuesday night against the Red Wings, was replaced by Nick Schultz.Schultz was paired with Shayne Gostisbehere on the Flyers top pairing, while Michael Del Zotto, who had been paired with Gostisbehere, played alongside Radko Gudas. ' ' '