Bulgaria s record-breaker Jordan Jovtchev bows out

Bulgaria's record-breaking Olympic gymnast Jordan Jovtchev mounted the rings for the last time in Sofia on Saturday, February 24 on the eve of the silver-haired athlete's 40th birthday.
At the Olympic Games London 2012 Jovtchev became the first male gymnast to compete at six Games - and he heads into retirement with three bronze and one silver medal, and a further 22 world and European championship medals.
Jovtchev made his Olympic debut at the age of 19 in Barcelona in 1992 but it took another eight years before he won his first two Olympic bronze medals on rings and floor at the age of 27 in Sydney in 2000.
Four years later he took silver on rings and a bronze on floor in Athens.
"I am tired now and I do not want to feel this pain anymore but I'll probably start to miss all this very soon," he winked. Jovtchev remains Bulgaria's gymnastics federation president, a job he has undertaken together with competing since 2008.