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Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different types of apparatus. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which assigns the Code of Points used to score performances and regulates all aspects of elite international competition.
Along with the rest of the U.S. women's Olympic gymnastics team, she was featured on the cover of the July 18, 2012, issue of Sports Illustrated. This was the first time an entire Olympic gymnastics team had been featured on the magazine's cover. [116] Raisman posed nude in the 2015 ESPN The Magazine's Body Issue.
By 1928, women started competing in track and field, and their uniforms looked a lot like the men’s, with loose-fitting shorts and short-sleeved tops. Over time, women started wearing shorts and ...
Julissa D'Anne Gomez (November 4, 1972 – August 8, 1991) was an American gymnast whose rapid rise through the ranks of elite gymnastics in the mid-1980s was cut short by a vaulting accident in 1988 that left her a quadriplegic. She eventually died from her injury. She was being coached by Al Fong, and had previously been coached by Bela Karolyi.
The U.S. didn't have an African American female gymnast on the team until 1980. Now, the team consists of two African American women, one Puerto Rican and one Jewish woman.
The most diverse women’s gymnastics team in history will begin competing this weekend at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games – and inspiring younger gymnasts with their performances.
Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters is a 1995 nonfiction book by San Francisco Chronicle sports writer Joan Ryan detailing the difficult training regimens endured by young girls in competitive sports such as gymnastics and figure skating, published by Doubleday Books.
When Dominique Dawes competed in the Olympic trials for the 1992 Barcelona Games, she was the first Black gymnast to ever qualify. Three decades later, 80% of the U.S. women’s Olympic gymnastics ...