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Olympic Gymnastics
Olympic gymnastics is usually a fan favorite at the Summer Games. Check out pictures and articles from past and present Olympic gymnastic competitions.
Gymnastics is competed in by both women and men in the Olympics. There are three categories that competitors participate in. Artistic includes events such as floor and pommel horse, rhythmic includes events such as ribbon dancing and is competed in by only women and trampoline is the last group, competed in by individuals only.Artistic
14 sets of medals are awarded, events are scored individually, but tehre is a team all-around. A country may enter up to 6 men and 6 women athletes, qualification is based on the results of the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
Men's Events:
Team All-Around
Individual All-Around
Floor
Pommel Horse
Rings
Vault
Parallel Bars
Horizontal Bar
Women's Events:
Team All-Around
Individual All-Around
Vault
Unevent Bars
Balance Bean
Floor
RhythmicTwo sets of medals are awarded in the individual and group categories. A country may enter up to two individuals and up to one group of six athletes. Qualification is based on the results of the 2007 World Championships.
Events:
Individual
Group
Trampoline
Two sets of medas are awarded to individual women and men. A country may enter up to two men and two women athletes. Qualification is based on the results of the 2007 World Championships.
Events:
Individual Men
Individual Women
Bahamas Gymnastics Parent Booster Club (BGPBC) in conjunction with Bahamas Star Gymnastics (BSG) organized a certification course with USA Gymnastics University. A team of 10 persons traveled to Ann Arbor, Michigan where the Professional Development ...
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Whoop.
I still can’t get too excited about today’s SPECTACULAR.
Olympians Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin join us again for this spectular event. This year’s musical host is Ashley Tisdale, who starred in Disney High School Musical movies.
NASTIA LIUKIN
SAMANTHA PESZEK
SHAWN JOHNSON
RAJ BHAVSAR
COURTNEY KUPET
JONATHAN HORTON
IVAN IVANKOV
Rushmore Plaza Civic Center, Rapid City, South Dakota – Progressive Skating and [...]
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Romanian Coach Nicolae Forminte said:
… the Code of Points does not help Romania develop and retain many gymnasts.
“Now the scoring is open(-ended), so everyone tries to do many difficult combinations that take a lot out of the body,” he said. “It’s not easy to make many routines. There are two notes, Difficulty and Execution. [...]
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Who is MunchTheSilivasFan?
WOW.
She put together an epic edit, almost 9min long. (When is the last time you saw a gymnastics montage of this length?) Plenty of slow motion and close-ups.
This is the first video in months that I’ve downloaded to my computer. It’s perfect for showing non-gymnastics types simply how amazing are gymnasts. By [...]
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- U.S. Olympic Gymnasts – Courage Is (gymnasticscoaching.com)
LONDON — The Americans are making a habit of this 1-2 thing.
Bridget Sloan edged teammate Rebecca Bross for the title at the world gymnastics championships Friday night, just as Nastia Liukin beat Shawn Johnson for the Olympic gold medal last...
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- Bridget Sloan Wins World Gymnastics Title (associatedcontent.com)
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LONDON – Olympic champion Nastia Liukin has a new title. Liukin was elected to the International Gymnastics Federation’s (FIG) Athletes Commission on Sunday, representing women’s artistic gymnastics. Jani Tanskanen of Finland, the 1997 world champion on high. . . .
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From sowetan.co.za
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Ekaterina Kurbatova of Russia leads after the first of five qualifying sessions at the world gymnastics championships, edging Olympic bronze medalist Yang Yilin.
Kurbatova, somewhat of a surprise all-arounder, finished with 55.950 points Wednesday. Yilin, the only medalist from Beijing co...
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- Kurbatova, Yang go 1-2 in gymnastics qualifying (search.msn.com)
Another BIG competition will be hosted in England. Put it on your calendar if you can get there.
… will be held at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham from 21 April until 2 May 2010. …
Around 800 of Europe’s best gymnasts from 40 countries will participate in this event, which will incorporate team and [...]
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Greek gymnast Vassilis Tsolakidis narrowly missed out on a medal at the World Gymnastics Championships in London yesterday, finishing fourth in the parallel bars final with 15,350 points. He was the only Greek to participate in a final in this championshi... ...
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The male gymnastics community has elected the Finnish athlete Jani Tanskanen as a member of the FIG Athletes’ Commission. He’ll represent the Men’s Artistic Gymnastics within the Commission. …
… Jani Tanskanen won the World Champion title on Horizontal Bar in 1997, in Lausanne (SUI). Today, he is the MAG Technical Director in the Finnish Gymnastics [...]
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