1. The Occasions
In Girls’s Creative Gymnasts, there are 4 occasions – vault, uneven bars, beam, and flooring. In Males’s Creative Gymnastics, there are six – flooring, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars, and excessive bar.
Though they’ve the identical title, males’s and ladies’s gymnastics are fully completely different sports activities. Aside from flooring and vault, males’s gymnasts have a tough time doing girls’s occasions and vice versa. Even on flooring, and vault, males’s and ladies’s gymnasts have completely different focuses. Whereas girls compete extra inventive flooring routines set to music, males focus much less on artistry and compete extra tumbling passes in a routine.
2. Scoring
In 2006, Elite gymnastics moved away from the proper 10 system to an open ended system. Now, a rating is made up of the E-score (execution) and D-score (issue). The 2 are added collectively to get a last rating. E-scores begin at 10.0 and deductions are subtracted from there. The proper 10 nonetheless exists in gymnastics! Nonetheless, it’s almost not possible to get a ten.0 execution rating as we speak. Some coaches and commentators joke that gymnasts get deductions only for respiration or standing nonetheless due to how harsh execution judging is. The highest scores could have E-scores within the 8s and D-scores within the 5s or 6s, creating an total rating within the 14s and even 15s. For a extra in depth clarification of scoring, learn (right here)!
3. {Qualifications} and Finals
All gymnasts on the Olympics will compete in {qualifications}. No medals are awarded right here, however the groups and people that may compete in finals are determined right here. The highest 8 performing groups in {qualifications} advance to the group last, the highest 24 within the All-Round advance to the All-Round last, and the highest 8 in every occasion advance to occasion finals.
4. Two per Nation Rule
The FIG (Worldwide Gymnastics Federation) solely permits the highest two scoring gymnasts per nation in every occasion/the All-Round to compete in a last. This rule was applied to advertise variety and stop one nation from sweeping the rostrum. The “two per nation rule” is why there’ll probably be gymnasts who certified exterior of the highest 8 or 24 competing in finals.
5. Vault
Until a gymnast is attempting to qualify for or is competing within the vault last, gymnasts solely vault as soon as.
In {qualifications} (for these desirous to qualify for the vault last) or within the vault last, gymnasts will vault twice. They carry out two completely different vaults that should be from completely different vault “households”. The scores of the 2 vaults are averaged to provide you with the ultimate rating. This common is just used for figuring out vault occasion placements and isn’t used for group or All-Round placements.
