{"id":268414,"date":"2023-01-30T07:33:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T15:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lulus.com\/blog\/?p=268414"},"modified":"2024-01-30T13:54:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T21:54:10","slug":"all-about-gymnastics-leotards-basic-skills-to-competitions-and-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lulus.com\/blog\/resources\/all-about-gymnastics-leotards-basic-skills-to-competitions-and-the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"All About Gymnastics: From Leotards and Basic Skills to Competitions and the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gymnastics is a popular type of sport that focuses on physical strength, agility, and artistry. Performing at a high level, like in the Olympics, requires years of training, with many competitors beginning to learn gymnastics as young as age 2. Gymnastics consists of three disciplines: artistic, rhythmic, and trampoline. Artistic gymnastics is actually the type that’s less artistic; it’s the one Americans most commonly think of when they think of gymnastics, including events like the vault, the balance beam, the pommel horse, and the floor exercise. Famous gymnasts like Simone Biles, Kerri Strug, and Mary Lou Retton won Olympic gold in artistic gymnastics. Rhythmic gymnastics combines athleticism and dance to create expressive routines incorporating different props, such as a ball, a hoop, or a ribbon attached to a stick. And trampoline, the most recently added Olympic gymnastics discipline, consists of acrobatic jumps and flips performed on a trampoline.<\/span><\/p>\n