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10 interesting facts you probably didn't know about gymnastics!- The number of the National Federations which are members of the international Governing body (FIG) has grown to 130 in the year 2008.
- 1960 saw a number of Gymnastics curiosities in Great Britain: like 200 boys applying for 90 places in the first National School Boys Course held at Swaylands College near Tonbridge, or the Royal Albert Hall's 6,000 seating capacity being insufficient to meet the demand of the crowd during the British Championships held on 25th March 1961.
- British Gymnastics is one of the oldest Governing bodies in the world. It has been formed on 21st June 1888, then under the name Amateur Gymnastics Association.
- The triple somersault on floor was seen for the first time at Olympic Games in Seoul 1988; it was performed by Valery Liukin (USSR) whose daughter Anastasia (Nastia) Liukin became Olympic All-around Champion for women exactly 20 years later, in Beijing 2008, competing for the USA.
- The first International Code of Points for men has been created in 1949 and consisted of 12 pages, while its last edition, from 2007, consists of 150 pages.
- Svetlana Khorkina (RUS) is the only woman in the history of gymnastics who has won the World Individual All-around title three times - 1997, 2001, 2003.
- Under the overall description of Gymnastics lie the individual disciplines and activities of: Men's Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Artistic Gymnastics, Rhythmic Gymnastics, Trampoline Gymnastics (all of the above being Olympic disciplines), and also Tumbling, Acrobatics, Aerobics, General Gymnastics and Gymnastics & Movement for People with Disabilities (GMPD).
- The word gymnastics is derived from the Greek 'gymnos' (naked), as most athletes during the ancient Olympic games performed without clothes. The 'gymnasium' in Greek was a public school or place designated for physical exercises.
- There are four male gymnasts who have won the Individual World All-around title twice: Yuri Korolev (USSR), 1981 & 1985; Dmitry Bilozertchev, (USSR), 1983 & 1987; Ivan Ivankov, Belarus, 1994 & 1997 and the Chinese Yang Wei, 2006 & 2007.
- Artistic Gymnastics is one of the few sports that have been contested at every Olympic games of the modern era since 1896 when only 18 male gymnasts took part representing 5 nations.
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