Gymnastics is a beautiful sport. It’s powerful, yet graceful. It’s dangerous, yet mesmerizing. It’s also very complicated.
The sport itself breaks up into three categories: artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and trampoline. The most common is artistic gymnastics, which both men and women compete in.
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Sticking with the women’s realm of the sport, artistic gymnastics consists of four events: vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise. All are competed at a gymnastics arena, which is called a podium.
A common theme throughout each event: The harder the trick, the better, but it has to be executed, not just attempted.