in competition. In Drǎgulescu's best Olympic performance of the same two vaults he had been using for many years now, and they were once again the "Drǎgulescu" (a handspring double front tucked with ½ twist to land; D-score – 6.0) and "Li Xiaopeng" (Yurchenko, ½ twist on with 2½ twists in layout off; D-score – 6.2). However, he still lost. This was also the second time that the tiebreak had not worked in favour of Drǎgulescu at the Olympics. The first time happened at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens where he missed out on the gold medal and settled for silver when he tied for the highest score with 9.787 in the individual floor exercise apparatus finals. After applying the tiebreak, Kyle Shewfelt of Canada ranked ahead in first with Drǎgulescu relegating to second place. 2017 In 2017, Drǎgulescu was once again selected to represent the host Romanian team at the 2017 European Championships. He won gold in the floor exercise event final, his first victory at the European Championships in 11 years. He followed up his success at the championships in vault the next day, winning the silver medal. At the 2017 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships, Drǎgulescu finished the individual vault final in fourth place with an average combined score of 14.716. He had simplified his second vault to the "½ on–double full off" instead of his usual, the "Li Xiao Peng". Kenzō Shirai of Japan, the man Drǎgulescu tied for the third highest final score in the individual vault final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, won the gold medal with a score of 14.900. Drǎgulescu was again the oldest individual vault finalist at 36 years, 9 months and 20 days old. 2019 At the 2019 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships, Drǎgulescu repeated his 2017 performance by placing fourth again in the individual vault final with an average combined score of 14.624. He had also stayed with the same simplified second vault he competed at these championships in 2017. Once more, he was the oldest individual vault finalist, this time at 38 years, 9 months and 25 days old. 2020/2021 Drǎgulescu had previously qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo as a specialist in the opening rounds of two individual events—floor exercise and vault—but he ultimately chose to not compete the individual floor exercise apparatus and fully focus only on vault. His qualification scores