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Olympics Gymnastics
cient 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. The Romans, introduced the wooden horse. In 393 AD the Emperor Theodosius abolished the Olympic Games, due to corruption, and gymnastics, along with other sports declined. For centuries, gymnastics was forgotten.

Men’s Artistic Gymnastics first became an Olympic sport in 1896 and Women's Artistic Gymnastics in 1928. Nadia Comaneci, coached by the famous Romanian Bela Karolyi, received the first perfect score, at the 1976 Olympic Games held in Montreal, Canada. She scored four of her perfect tens on the uneven bars, two on the balance beam and one in the floor exercise. Unfortunately, the Romanians lost the gold medal to the Soviets. Nadia showed the world that perfection could be achieved.

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 was at every Summer Olympic Games since 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, trampolining was also competed.

In the Olympics there are three different kinds of gymnastics events. Men and women compete in Artistic Gymnastics and Trampoline while only women compete in Rhythmic Gymnastics. In Artistic Gymnastics men use six pieces of equipment: Floor Exercises, Pommel Horse, Rings, Vault, Parallel Bars and Horizontal Bar. Women use four pieces of equipment: Vault, Uneven Bars, Balance Beam and 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.

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/partners 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. As in all Special Olympics sports, athletes are grouped in competition divisions according to ability level, age and gender. They are judged individually, the scores are later added together for each event for a combined total score. Unified Sports teams may be specialists or all-arounders; awards are based on the combined scores of the athletes and partners.

Gymnastics is considered to be a dangerous sport, due to the height of the apparatus, the speed of the exercises and the impact on competitors' joints, bones and muscles. In several cases, competitors suffered serious, lasting injuries and paralysis after severe gymnastics-related accidents. In 1998, world-class Chinese artistic gymnast Sang Lan was paralyzed after falling on vault at the Goodwill Games.

International medical studies analyzed artistic gymnastics injuries and results have indicated that more than half of all elite-level participants 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 mats and knowledgeable coaching can lessen the frequency or occurrence of injuries.

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