 "Gymnastics
is a
sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical
strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance.
Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the
Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG) with each
country having its own national governing body affiliated to
FIG. Competitive
Artistic gymnastics is the best known of the gymnastic
sports. It typically involves the women's events of
uneven bars,
balance beam,
floor exercise, and
vault. Men's events are
floor exercise,
pommel horse,
still rings,
vault,
parallel bars, and
high bar. Gymnastics evolved from exercises used by the
ancient
Greeks, that included skills for mounting and dismounting a
horse, and from circus performance skills. Other gymnastic
sports include
rhythmic gymnastics, the various
trampolining sports, aerobic and acrobatic gymnastics.". Source:
Wikipedia |
