Simone Biles makes history again as she wins

The Fierce Five win the US’s second ever gold

medal in the women’s team competition. The five
The gymnastics levels changed from 6
The Final Five win the gold medal
the World Championships in Stuttgart, The International Olympic
compulsory levels and 4 optional levels, to 5 Germany and becomes the first female Committee makes the
members of the team were Gabby Douglas, in the women’s team
compulsory levels and 5 optional levels. Also gymnast to win 21 medals in total (beating decision to postpone the
McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman, Kyla Ross and competition to defend their title
in 2013, the Xcel program becomes a national out Svetlana Khorkina who was the previous
Jordyn Weiber. Gabby Douglas became the first
program. The Xcel program is a great addition
and Simone Biles wins the All
record holder with 20 World medals). Biles 2020 Tokyo Olympics in
African American in Olympic history to win the Around and was the only response to the coronavirus
to the traditional Junior Olympic program due also performs a triple-double on floor
Individual All Around title as well as the first American to qualify for all 4 pandemic that affected the
to its affordable competition experience and exercise and a double-double tuck dismount
American to win both the Individual All Around event finals.
ability to retain athletes. on beam, becoming the first gymnast to entire world.
and Team gold in the same Olympics.
compete and land those skills.
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The Magnificent FIG raised the Trampoline Trampoline Due to safety United States Sports Carly Patterson FIG introduced a new
Seven, the 1996 US age made its concerns, the Vault Acrobatics (USSA) becomes the first scoring system for
and table replaced the merged with USA American woman women’s artistic
Olympic women’s requirement Tumbling Olympic debut
vault horse Gymnastics making to win the Olympic gymnastics.
gymnastics team, for gymnasts at the 2000
win the US’s to compete at joined USA Olympics..
(basically a pommel Acro the fifth all-around title in a Now the maximum
horse with no gymnastics non-boycotted score is no longer a 10.0.
first gold medal in senior-level Gymnastics. handles) in discipline. Olympics. The new scoring system
the women’s team gymnastics gymnastics has two separate scores
competition. The events from competition. added together — a
seven members 15 to 16.. difficulty score, and an
execution score. This
were Shannon
scoring system is used at
Miller, Dominique the Elite level in the US
Moceanu, and in international
Dominique Dawes, competitions.
Kerri Strug, Amy
Chow, Amanda
Borden and Jaycie
Phelps.
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Friedrich gymnasium the European summer allowed to Gymnastics Comaneci gymnastics
Gutsmuths, was opened Gymnastics Olympics was compete Federation, received the was added to
considered to be by Friedrich Federation, held in Athens artistic now known as first perfect the Olympics.
the great Ludwig Jahn, which would and gymnastics at USA score at the Also Mary Lou
grandfather of the father of later become gymnastics the 1928 Gymnastics, 1976 Retton
gymnastics, gymnastics. the events were a Summer was formed. Olympics. became the
published the first International part of the Olympics held first American
gymnastics Gymnastics competition. in Amsterdam. woman to win
textbook. Federation the Olympic
(FIG) was all-around
formed. title.