Japan, the defending champions and the winners of this competition five times in a row between 1960 and 1976, took the silver while the US also dropped down a step on the podium, their bronze medals almost forfeited when Raj Bhavsar and Kevin Tan produced dreadful marks of 13.750 and 12.775 on the pommel horse.
Rovers were once again guilty of dreadful marking, Wheater left unattended as he applied another firm header to Ryo Miyaichi's corner.
It was all downhill, and rapidly, for Brazil from the moment Muller was the beneficiary of dreadful marking to steer in Kroos's corner.
Yet his decision marks an escalation of American involvement, and it has provoked unease that the United States will shuffle into yet another dreadful Middle East war.
"After months of confusion and mismanagement, they mark the dismal culmination of a dreadful year for primary pupils and their teachers.
Fifteen years ago, when the disastrous duo Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood hosted the Brits, it marked the nadir of a pretty dreadful sequence of ceremonies.
The dreadful combination of hack politics and hardcore extremism which marks Beltway political culture spun up a far bigger distraction in itself than any of the multiple distractions that have so roiled geopolitical waters lately and distracted from the Asia-Pacific Pivot.
"To mark and to remember and to never forget that dreadful past is something we should have to do to ensure we never repeat those mistakes".
His violence and his deceit are a sort of existential affirmation, a mark on the world, the wrenching of a space — even a dreadful and self-punishing one — within which he makes his identity and recognizes himself.
England made a dreadful start with the bat, Craig Kieswetter taking five balls to get off the mark before being caught by a diving Robin Peterson as he swung across the line.
The project is being supported by Jonathan Reynolds, the MP for Stalybridge and Hyde, who said the report marked an "another important step finding a solution to the dreadful traffic problems suffered by people in my constituency".
