Uneven bars
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The uneven bars or asymmetric bars is an artistic gymnastics apparatus. It is made of a steel frame. The bars are made of fiberglass with wood coating, or less commonly wood. The English abbreviation
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Nastia Liukin
Lineup for practice
Youna Dufournet preparing the bars with chalk
Gymnastics
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Gymnastics is a group of sports that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, artistry and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribut
Uneven bars
…Comaneci salto at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal and advanced handstand elements four years later. The giant swing, the staple of high bar in men's artistic gymnastics (MAG), was also adopted into the women's Code of Points, and quickly became a basic uneven bars skill. By the mid-1980s, routines had become so based on swing…
Daniele Hypólito performing on the balance beam
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, the "father of gymnastics"
Early 20th-century gymnastics in Stockholm, Sweden
Nadia Comăneci in 1976. The artistry and grace of Comăneci and Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut gave the sport global popularity.