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= Gymnastics =

Gymnastics is a sport that involves physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. There are many forms of gymnastics, artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, trampolining and tumbling, acorbatic gymnastics, team gym, display gymnastics, and acrobatic gymnastics.

Artistic Gymnastics
Artistic Gymnastics is to push the gymnast's strength, flexibility, endurance, and awareness to the extremeand is physically exhasting. Artistic gymnastics is split into men and women categories. Events for women in artistic gymnastics include vault, uneven bars, balance beam, and floor. Events for men include floor, pommel horse, still rings, vault, parallel bars, and high bar.

Rhythmic Gymnastics
Only women compete in rhythmic gymnastics. This sport involves ballet, gymnastics, and dance. Individuals can compete as well as group performances, involving 5 gymnasts and 5 apparatuses.

Trampolining and tumbling
Trampolining and tumbling is split into 4 groups, individual and synchronised trampoline, double mini trampoline, and tumbling. Routines are marked out if ten points. They are marked on the participants flips and twists down a sprung tumbling track.

Acrobatic Gymnastics
Acrobatics is a men and women sport. This sport is performed in groups of two, three, and four. The performance is used with the head, hands and feet of their partners.

Team Gym
Team gym involves a mixture of composed dance, flexibility and skill. In each perfromance there needs to be 2 spins minimum, two balances and two section elements. The routine has to be skillfully choreograohed and changes in shape.

Display Gymnastics
Display gymnastics performs synchrinised choreographed routines and is done in groups of 6. This sport is for all ages and abilities.

Aerobic Gymnastics
Acrobatics gymnastics is performed in routines by individuals, pairs, trios and groups of 6. This sport involves emphasizing strengh, flexibility, aerobic fitness and balance skills and a routine usually lasts between 69-90 seconds.