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
A badly translated but cute article from China.
… Yang Le, deeply influenced by Olympic champion uncle Yang Wei, was fascinated with gymnastics. Her passion for the gymnastics led her to this school when she was only 3 years old. …
Future star of gymnastics: Little girl’s champion dream
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The best finish in program history in 2009 has carried over into 2010 for the Arkansas gymnastics program as the Razorbacks have earned a preseason ranking of No. 8 in the nation by GymInfo. GymInfo provides the official NCAA rankings for collegiate ...
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The best bars video I saw in 2008 was edited by Michel Arsenault of Champions Gymnastics in Canada.
It’s a DVD with lengthy accompanying notes called:
2006 Gymnastics Study Tour of China
Michel was partly funded to travel to China by Gymnastics Alberta and Alberta Lotteries (Above and Beyond program).
Visiting gyms in Beijing, KunMing and ZhengZhou, Michel [...]
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- gymnastics falls in slow motion (gymnasticscoaching.com)
- gymnast Adam Wong retires (gymnasticscoaching.com)
- Dory Dynna gymnastics photos (gymnasticscoaching.com)
The LSU gymnastics team signed four gymnasts after receiving their National Letters of Intent on Monday. Sidney Sanabria-Robles from Caguas, Puerto Rico; Gabby Swart from Coopersburg, Pa.; Sarie Morrison from Dallas, Texas; and Maliah Mathis from San...
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by site editor Rick McCharles
I’m leading an Olympic Solidarity course for the International Gymnastics Federation in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dec. 1-10.
One of the mandates of the International Olympic Committee is to help grow Olympic sport around the world. To this end they budget money to support the National Olympic Committees (NOCs) in building sport programs.
I [...]
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- W. Gymnastics. GymDawgs Ink Two To National Letters Of Intent (gohuskies.cstv.com)
We’re seeing by far the best online coverage ever of a Trampoline and Tumbling World Championships.
From FIG …
… It will be exciting to watch Japan’s world class Trampoline gymnasts. At the last two world championships, Tetsuya Sotomura and Yasuhiro Ueyama medalled in Individual as well as Synchronised Trampoline, topping by their joint Gold in [...]
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- User:Qwerty786/Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's trampoline (en.wikipedia.org)
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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- China dominates individual event finals at gymnastics worlds (search.msn.com)
LSU alumna stays focused on schoolHeroes get remembered, but legends never die. This epic quote from Babe Ruth’s character in the 1993 movie ‘The Sandlot’ perfectly sums up the career of former LSU gymnast Ashleigh Clare-Kearney. Clare-Kearney’s name will live on f...
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- Gymnast Liukin joins FIG board (sowetan.co.za)
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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Valentin Uzunov posted an article on The Gym Press:
… a 12 week off-season sprint training program, for preadolescent gymnasts (7-12 years of age), who have not had formal sprint training. A detailed discussion is presented on the theoretical and practical application of the key concepts to effective sprinting for vault: optimized running mechanics, [...]
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