Do you like watching gymastics matches?
By nayiying
@nayiying (83)
August 22, 2008 5:59am CST
i like watching gymastics match very much. it is the beauty of strength and art. floor exercise, balance beam, uneven bars, horizontal bar, parallel bar, vaulting horse, rings, pommel horse, rhythmic gymnastics, and trampolinging--do you like them? which do you like best? i think gymnasts are younger than other athletes, and gymnasts suffer more injuries. which gymnast do you like most?
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@dagda24 (366)
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22 Aug 08
I really enjoy watching gymnastics. I love when the olympics are on as the other competitions in gymnastics do not often get televised.
My favourite pieces are probably the Beam, Parrallel bars and floor exercises, though I also like the high bar and asymetric bars and also the rings (so much strength and control).
I am not so keen on the pommel horse as many of the routines seem to be very similar, with only the dismounts showing a great amount of variety. I am also not a big fan of the vault. With vault you can only truly appreciate what theya re doing if you get shown the slow motion replay. They go so fast over it that I often blink and miss exactly what it is they did.
Beth Tweddle has been a favourite of ours as she was the most successful gymnast we have had in a long time. I also like Tomito from Japan and Pavlova from Russia, though none of them have done as well on this olympics as they have previously, I think maybe they are approaching the end of their gymnastics careers.
I think gymnasts tend to be younger than other sportsmen as they rely on the subtleness of body which deteriorates as we get older. It is such a shame that they cannot have longer in the sport.