Talk:Gymnastics

Parking here

I'll re add this a soon as I find the appropriate place for it.

•Nadia Comăneci received the first perfect score, at the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada. She was coached in Romania by 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.

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Basic definition lacking

There is nothing in the opening paragraph that says what gymnastics IS. It starts by saying it is "a sport that requires balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination and endurance" and goes on to say what muscles and skills are developed in gymnastics, but these requirements and effects are things that could be said of almost any sport. We get the start of an idea at the end of the para: "Gymnastics evolved from exercises used by the ancient Greeks that included skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and from circus performance skills." There must be some more specific way of describing what gymnastics is, some taxonomy it fits into (not a ball sport, not a game-based sport...). Something about executing movements that involve balancing one's own bodyweight, often using apparatus? Faff296 (talk) 22:11, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

other forms

Are Trapeze and Aerial silk also forms of gymnastics? 213.149.62.12 (talk) 22:55, 28 January 2019 (UTC)