Gymnatics

[Celticlass]

As a one time gymnast competitor,I am eagerly awaiting this!! what was extreme high level moves for us years ago,is compulsory moves now!! It is amaxing WHAT the human bodty can do!! Any other aging gymnasts out there?

[PHILOXENIA]

Hello Celticlass

Jiang Yuyuan performs her floor exercise. (Photo credit: Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)
Thank you for this new forum! I don't have idols but two gymnasists made me great impression: 1968, Olga Korbut USSR, and 1976, Nadia Comaneci Romania. I love this sport.

Gymnastics has a long, proud history. The sport can be traced back to ancient Greece, where such skills featured in the ancient Olympic Games. Ancient Rome, Persia, India and China practised similar disciplines, mostly aimed at preparing young men for battle. The word itself derives from the Greek word gymnos, meaning naked - dress requirements for athletes in those days were minimal, to say the least.

Olympic history
Credits to IOC

The early Olympic Games featured some gymnastic disciplines which could scarcely be deemed "artistic", however. Rope climbing, tumbling and club swinging were among the events that failed to survive the refining process. At the World Championships, first held in Antwerp in 1903, field events such as the pole vault, broad jump and shot-put even featured occasionally until 1954. Swimming appeared once, at the 1922 championships.

The Olympic programme began to settle in 1924, with men competing for individual medals and in team events on each apparatus. Four years later, women began competing in Olympic gymnastics at Amsterdam. By 1952, the Soviet Union had become the leading force in Olympic gymnastics, its profile rising slowly after a group of social reformers - including playwright Anton Chekhov - formed the Russian Gymnastic Federation in 1883.

Gymnastics has been present at every Olympic Games.

Georgios
[Philoxenia]

[Celticlass]

Thanks for the fine info!! I was a nationally ranked gymnast in the USA back when!! And judged!! Still get goose bumps watching!! And want to do a back flip!! HA!

PHILOXENIA said:

Hello Celticlass

Jiang Yuyuan performs her floor exercise. (Photo credit: Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)
Thank you for this new forum! I don't have idols but two gymnasists made me great impression: 1968, Olga Korbut USSR, and 1976, Nadia Comaneci Romania. I love this sport.

Gymnastics has a long, proud history. The sport can be traced back to ancient Greece, where such skills featured in the ancient Olympic Games. Ancient Rome, Persia, India and China practised similar disciplines, mostly aimed at preparing young men for battle. The word itself derives from the Greek word gymnos, meaning naked - dress requirements for athletes in those days were minimal, to say the least.

Olympic history
Credits to IOC

The early Olympic Games featured some gymnastic disciplines which could scarcely be deemed "artistic", however. Rope climbing, tumbling and club swinging were among the events that failed to survive the refining process. At the World Championships, first held in Antwerp in 1903, field events such as the pole vault, broad jump and shot-put even featured occasionally until 1954. Swimming appeared once, at the 1922 championships.

The Olympic programme began to settle in 1924, with men competing for individual medals and in team events on each apparatus. Four years later, women began competing in Olympic gymnastics at Amsterdam. By 1952, the Soviet Union had become the leading force in Olympic gymnastics, its profile rising slowly after a group of social reformers - including playwright Anton Chekhov - formed the Russian Gymnastic Federation in 1883.

Gymnastics has been present at every Olympic Games.

Georgios
[Philoxenia]