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    Gymnastics Gymnastics has been the center of my life since I was three years old. I began taking basic classes at International Gymnastics in Charlotte. As I progressed, I started moving up to higher levels. Eventually, I became a part of the competitive gymnastics team. I participated on the team for six years. At the age of 15 I decided to quit gymnastics. This decision took a very long time to make since I had been in gymnastics most of my life. Currently, I coach instead of practicing gymnastics

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    Taking up gymnastics is one of the best decision I’ve ever made in my life. While I was in Nigeria, I saw an American gymnastics television show “Make it or break it”. When I saw those athletes use their bodies to gracefully propel themselves up in the air, I was in awe. Although I never really understood what the sport encompasses, I became captivated by it. While in the U.S., my friend who is also a gymnast informed me about the sport and I jumped at this opportunity and enrolled. Gymnastics- I realized

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    movements as if they can fly while controlling their bodies. I loved watching gymnastics and always wanted to try the sport. However, when I saw the passage “Is Watching Gymnastics Worse than Being an NFL Fan?” written by O’Rourke, I was astonished by the author’s doubts to the sport. In the article, the author talks about the development of gymnastics and emphasizes its sexual and emotionally abusive history. In her opinion, gymnastics is bad for female athletes and she doesn’t enjoy watching the sport as

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    Gymnastics is one of the most demanding and dangerous collegiate sports. Marina and Rodriguez (2014) investigated the physiological demands of women’s competitive gymnastics routines. Post-exercise heart rate, oxygen uptake, and peak blood lactate concentration were studied from eight elite female gymnasts. The gymnasts reached their highest heart rates (183-199 beats/minute), their highest oxygen uptake (33-44 mL/kg), and their highest blood lactate levels (7-9 mmol) following the floor and the

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    Have you ever thought how was gymnastics a sport and what it means well in this paper that I have written for you is the history of gymnastics, this paper talks about how gymnastics was in the late nineteenth century. I will be telling you about the history of gymnastics, the history of men’s gymnastics, the history of women’s gymnastics, and some facts about gymnastics. I will also be talking about how the different events changed  throughout the years. The last thing I will be talking about is

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    Body Paragraph #1 (Events) In comparing artistic gymnastics for men and women, men have six events whereas women have four events. The six events for men are floor exercise, pommel horse, still rings, vault, parallel bars, and horizontal bar. The four events for women are vault, uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise. Of the gymnastic events, the only two events that men and women have in common are floor exercise and vault. Men's floor exercise consists of tumbling passes in different directions

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    For this research paper, I will be researching the gymnastics scoring system, the controversy that the scoring has created over time, and the general history of the sport. Gymnastics started out as just an exercise program of different moves in Greece. The modernization of gymnastics began in the late 1700s, its been around for about 2,000 years. This is one of the oldest forms of exercise in the world. The scores are completely different not only because the system changed, but because the level

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    In the sport of gymnastics, you learn a lot of life lessons. You learn time management, respect, and hot to take care of your body. In my life, I’m so glad that gymnastics is a part of my life because I’ve gotten the opportunity to learn all these characteristics. I’m not just going to tell you about how much I love gymnastics, but how much gymnastics has made an impact on my life. I know what you’re thinking. What can gymnastics teach me? How is it important? Why is this girl writing about a silly

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    A score of 10.00 for a single routine is under the code of conduct set by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG). It was originally thought to be unattainable, until 1976; when Nadia Comaneci scored the first ever perfect ten. There have been a few perfect scores after Comaneci, like the first male to score 10.00, Alexander Dityatin in 1980. The last two perfect tens that were given were in Barcelona in 1992. Between 1976 and 1992, lots of 10.00 were given out; making a perfect ten lose its

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    Starting gymnastics has been the best decision I have ever made and has made me the person I am today. With every move, every skill, and every moment, gymnastics makes me feel alive. Ever since I was six, I have been doing gymnastics. I started when I said to my mother “I want to do that” with my high pitched little kid voice as I watched the gymnasts fly around the bar. My little sister had started me on the path of gymnastics because, ironically my sister wanted to do gymnastics and I never

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