PARIS: Don't you know your horse on uneven bars?
AFP Sport looks at the ins and outs of the artistic gymnastics competition that bursts into life at the Paris Olympics on Saturday.
Men compete on six apparatus: floor, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars and horizontal/high bars.
It's four women's events: vault, uneven bars, beam and floor.
The competition at the Bercy Arena from Saturday to August 5 will be divided into four divisions: the division, the team final, the overall final, and the equipment final.
In this weekend's competition, gymnasts compete as part of their national team or as individuals with results that can be used by gymnasts in the team finals, the environment and the equipment.
Team results are based on the top three gymnasts in each apparatus.
The eight countries with the highest points guarantee their ticket to the team finals, held in all facilities.
The top 24 competitors (the top two from each country) compete for the all-around title again and are treated as gymnastics blue events.
The apparatus finals feature the eight gymnasts with the highest scores in each apparatus (again with the top two from each country).
It's the same for men and women — magic on the 12m x 12m mat, making perfect dives in inches on the diagonal with music for women only.
The male equivalent of the female balance beam — places emphasis on core and shoulder strength as only the hands are allowed to touch the horse and the horse in leather and both handles.
'Just 5.75m' off the floor, gymnasts need help from their coaches to hang on. A moment of silence is followed by a show of strength and control like an iron cross: at this point the gymnast stops, with arms stretched horizontally, legs pointing down, all muscles tensed.
The ultimate test of a gymnast's skill, skill, athleticism and courage — blink and you'll miss five or six seconds of high drama. . Men's dining tables are 10cm higher than women's tables. Watch out for American superstar Simone Biles, who performed her signature Biles II Yurchenko double pike vault in training on Thursday.
It's a controlled movement that swings above and below the vertical bar at head height and shoulder-width apart—a glue-like landing that the keen-eyed judges will be looking for.
It's a high bar as it says on the tin — a terrifying 2.78m off the ground. The metal bars alone – the uneven bars and parallel bars are made of fiberglass with a wooden cover – are smaller in diameter than the parallel bars and generate excitement from the fans as they lift the gymnasts over the bar. bar – hope to hold it. then.
This device is for female gymnasts only and has two bars of different heights and widths to allow the gymnast to appear to roll off the bars. The high bar is 2.5m (8.2ft) off the ground, the low bar 1.7m. Watch out for young Algerian Kaylia Nemour, who boasts the best routine on the uneven bars as she looks to become the African continent's first Olympic medalist in gymnastics.
The original idea came from the 'grandfather of gymnastics' – Johann Guts Muth – a 19th century German physical education teacher. Olga Korbut stunned fans at the 1972 Munich Olympics with her first backslide. At only 10cm wide, it needs well-defined markings and steel nerves. The rectangular beam gives female gymnasts the ultimate test of balance, tumbling, leaping and jumping, and at the same time trying not to hit the deck.
Saturday, July 27 — Men's Tournament
Sunday, July 28 — Women's Tournament
Monday, July 29 — men's team finals
Tuesday, July 30 — women's team final
Wednesday, July 31 — men's final
Thursday, August 1 — women's final
Saturday, August 3 – Men's Finals; Women's Vault Finals; Men's pommel horse finish
Sunday, August 4 – men's ring final; Different bars for women; Men's Vault Finals
Monday, August 5 – Men's Parallel Bars Finals; Last Air Exchange for Women; Horizontal bars for men; Women's ultimate sport
