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Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of physical exercises requiring physical strength, mobility, agility, sychronisation, and stability. Globally, all of the competitive gymnastic sports are controlled by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG). Each nation has its own national regulating body partner to FIG. Competitive artistic gymnastics is the best regarded of the gymnastic activities. It ordinarily 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 capabilities.

Other gymnastic procedures include: trampolining, tumbling, rhythmic gymnastics, aerobic gymnastics and acrobatic gymnastics. Individuals can include children as young as four years old doing kindergym and children's gymnastics, leisure gymnasts of ages 5 and up, competitive gymnasts at varying levels of skill, and top notch athletes.

The Federation of International Gymnastics (FIG) was founded in Liege in 1881. By the end of the nineteenth century, men's gymnastics competition was well known enough to be included in the first "modern" Olympic Games in 1896. From then on until the early 1950s, both nationwide and worldwide competitions involved a transforming variety of exercises gathered under the rubric, gymnastics, that would seem strange to today's audiences and that included for example, synchronized team floor calisthenics, rope climbing, high jumping, running, and horizontal ladder. During the 1920s, women organized and took part in gymnastics events. The first women's Olympic competition was simple, for it required only synchronized calisthenics, was held at the 1928 Games, in Amsterdam.

By 1954, Olympic Games equipment and events for both men and women had been standardised in modern format, and uniform grading structures (including a point system from 1 to 15) had been arranged. At this time, Soviet gymnasts astounded the world with highly regimented and hard routines, setting a precedent that continues. The new medium of television helped publicize and trigger a modern age of gymnastics. Both men's and women's gymnastics now attract significant intercontinental attention, and excellent gymnasts can be found on every continent. Nadia Comaneci received the first perfect score, at the 1976 Summer Olympic games held in Montreal, Canada. She was trained in Romania by the Romanian coach, (Hungarian ethnicity), Béla Károlyi. Comaneci scored four of her perfect tens on the uneven bars, two on the balance beam and one in the floor exercise. Even with Nadia's perfect scores, the Romanians lost the gold medal to the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, Comaneci became an Olympic icon.

In 2006, a new points structure for Artistic gymnastics was put into play. With an A Score (or D score) being the difficulty report, which as of 2009 is based on the top 8 high rating elements in a regimen (excluding Vault). The B Score (or E Score), is the score for execution, and is given for how well the capabilities are performed

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