1. The Occasions
In Girls’s Inventive Gymnasts, there are 4 occasions – vault, uneven bars, beam, and flooring. In Males’s Inventive Gymnastics, there are six – flooring, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars, and excessive bar.
Regardless that they’ve the identical title, males’s and ladies’s gymnastics are fully totally different sports activities. Apart from flooring and vault, males’s gymnasts have a troublesome time doing ladies’s occasions and vice versa. Even on flooring, and vault, males’s and ladies’s gymnasts have totally different focuses. Whereas ladies compete extra creative 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 (problem). The 2 are added collectively to get a remaining rating. E-scores begin at 10.0 and deductions are subtracted from there. The right 10 nonetheless exists in gymnastics! Nevertheless, it’s practically unattainable to get a ten.0 execution rating right this moment. 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 can have E-scores within the 8s and D-scores within the 5s or 6s, creating an general 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 can compete in finals are determined right here. The highest 8 performing groups in {qualifications} advance to the group remaining, the highest 24 within the All-Round advance to the All-Round remaining, 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 remaining. This rule was applied to advertise variety and forestall one nation from sweeping the rostrum. The “two per nation rule” is why there’ll doubtless be gymnasts who certified exterior of the highest 8 or 24 competing in finals.
5. Vault
Except a gymnast is making an attempt to qualify for or is competing within the vault remaining, gymnasts solely vault as soon as.
In {qualifications} (for these desirous to qualify for the vault remaining) or within the vault remaining, gymnasts will vault twice. They carry out two totally different vaults that should be from totally different vault “households”. The scores of the 2 vaults are averaged to provide you with the ultimate rating. This common is barely used for figuring out vault occasion placements and isn’t used for group or All-Round placements.
