As he stuck his landing, his coach Jake Seager fell to his knees celebrating before the two embraced. It wasn’t official yet, but they knew.
“I like to imagine the best scenario possible and that was winning,” added Ward when asked what he was thinking as his head hit the pillow on Saturday night.
“It kept me awake a little bit because I was picturing it and feeling the emotions. But this beat the expectations by a mile.
“Falling short on Friday was heartbreaking and I’m just so overwhelmed, man. I can barely put words together.”
It could get even better. He goes on the floor and pommel on Monday, and is a real medal contender in the later.
His celebrations will have to wait for now, but by Tuesday, Ward could well be getting up to all sorts of capers in Glasgow with his Scotland team-mates.
“Tonight looks like eating hotel food and probably getting a pretty bad night’s sleep,” he said. “Then I’ll come in tomorrow, and try to relax and hit my routine.
“On Tuesday, after the competition, I’ll celebrate big time with the team, with my boys. I love them so much and them coming to see me at the end when I was going around of the arena was special.
“I’m hoping we’ll get to experience a bit of Glasgow.. “
