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The sport involving the performance of sequences of movements requiring physical strength, flexibility, balance, endurance, gracefulness, and kinesthetic awareness, such as handsprings, handstands, split leaps, aerials and cartwheels is called gymnastics. This sport was initiated by the Greeks and involved great practice and skill. It developed from beauty practices and fitness used by the ancient Greeks, including skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and circus performance skills.
To the Ancient Greeks, physical fitness was paramount, and all Greek cities had a gymnasia, a courtyard for jumping, running, and wrestling. As the Roman Empire ascended, Greek gymnastics gave way to military training.
In 2006, a new points system was put into play. Instead of being marked 1 to 10, the gymnast's start value depends on the difficulty rating of the exercise routine. Also, the deductions became higher: before the new point system developed, the deduction for a fall was 0.5, and now it is 0.8. The motivation for a new point system was to decrease the chance of gymnasts getting a perfect score.
Gymnastics has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics. For thirty years, only men were allowed to compete. Women's events were introduced at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. The competition was held in artistic gymnastics discipline until 1984, when rhythmic gymnastics discipline was added to the program of the Olympics. Since 2000, tramp lining discipline has also been competed.
In the Olympics there are three different kinds of gymnastics events. Men and women will compete in Artistic Gymnastics and Trampoline and only women compete in Rhythmic Gymnastics. In Artistic Gymnastics men use six pieces of equipment:
• Floor Exercises,
• Pommel Horse,
• Rings, Vault,
• Parallel Bars
• Horizontal Bar
Women use four pieces of equipment:
• Vault
• Uneven Bars
• Balance Beam
• Floor Exercises
Rhythmic Gymnastics is a combination of dance and gymnastics. The gymnasts use ribbons, a rope, a hoop, a ball, or a club. In trampoline gymnasts do ten different tricks while bouncing on a trampoline. In 1976, Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci was the first artistic gymnast to score a perfect ten.
Special Olympics Gymnastics combines strength, flexibility and artistry. Competitions are offered for men in the artistic events and women in artistic and rhythmic events. Male and female gymnasts may compete in all events offered or may be specialists, competing in one, two, or more but not all events.
Special Olympics athletes also can participate in Special Olympics Unified Sports® events. Unified Sports is a program that combines Special Olympics athletes and athletes without intellectual disabilities on sports teams for training and competition.
In Unified Sports gymnastics, all rules and regulations apply equally to athletes and partners, who compete in the same compulsory and optional routines. They are judged individually, and then the scores are added together for each event for a combined total score for that event. Unified Sports teams may be specialists or all-rounder; awards are based on the combined scores of the athletes and partners.
Gymnastics is considered to be a dangerous sport, due in part to the height of the apparatus, the speed of the exercises and the impact on competitors' joints, bones and muscles. In several cases, competitors have suffered serious, lasting injuries and paralysis after severe gymnastics-related accidents.
Artistic gymnastics injuries have been the subject of several international medical studies, and results have indicated that more than half of all elite-level participants may eventually develop chronic injuries. In the United States, injury rates range from a high 56% for high school gymnasts to 23% for club gymnasts. However, the rates for participants in recreational or lower-level gymnastics are lower than that of high-level competitors. Conditioning, secure training environments with knowledgeable coaching can also lessen the frequency or occurrence of injuries.