3. In gymnastics there are four events-Vault, bars, beam, and flour. Vault is pretty simple, all you have to do is run as fast as you can and then hit the spring board and flip onto the vault and then flip off. There are many kinds of vaults performed, like a simple handspring, witch is when you jump on the spring board and put your hands on the vault and flip your legs around and land on the mat, a half on is when you jump on the spring board and twist on to the vault in a handstand and then fall until you land on the mat with your feet, and then if you want to make that harder you can do a half on-half off or a full, even to a double! There are also more like a tsukahara,where you do a half on and then instead of just landing you kick your feet around and do a back tuck (aka) back flip, round off back hand spring, and a yurchenko, that is were you do a round off back handspring and then you can do any thing from a back tuck to a back twist. Those three are performed sometimes in the Olympics.

4. Bars is a fairly hard event, because you must have a mount, and a dismount and tricks in between. A Mount is a trick to get on the bar like a kip, and a dismount is to get off the bar, like a fly-away. A typical bar routine like mine goes like this, Kip, cast, back hip circle, stoop on, long hang kip, cast, fly-away. But in the Olympics there are way more complicated bar routines that have lots of giants, that is when you circle around the bar over and over again. They also do lots of Free hips that is like a back hip circle except you don’t put your hips on the bar. Olympians instead of doing a simple fly away they do more of an extreme dismount like a double back, or a triple twist or even a double twist with a double back in it! I like bars because it is very challenging to stay on the bar. Bars is a fairly hard event, because you must have a mount, and a dismount and tricks in between. A Mount is a trick to get on the bar like a kip, and a dismount is to get off the bar, like a fly-away. A typical bar routine like mine goes like this, Kip, cast, back hip circle, stoop on, long hang kip, cast, fly-away. But in the Olympics there are way more complicated bar routines that have lots of giants, that is when you circle around the bar over and over again. They also do lots of Free hips that is like a back hip circle except you don’t put your hips on the bar. Olympians instead of doing a simple fly away they do more of an extreme dismount like a double back, or a triple twist or even a double twist with a double back in it! I like bars because it is very challenging to stay on the bar.

5. This event is tricky because you have to stay on a four inch wide beam while doing tricks that could kill you! Well it would only kill you if you were doing it wrong. Beam has a dismount and a mount like bars, except a mount on beam is usually a press to handstand and a dismount would be well for me and my team mates it would be a cartwheel back tuck but in the Olympics it could be a round-off double back, or a round-off back twist, OR to make it really hard you could do a backwards skill into a backwards skill like a back- handspring into a back-layout. In a beam routine you also have to have some dance moves they don’t have to be certain ones they just have to be dance moves. In the middle you need to have skills too I have a back-walkover, a full turn, a hand-stand, and a cartwheel back-tuck. Instead of a back-walkover the Olympians do more than a back-handspring! They can do a layout or even a double back!!!

6. Floor is a fun event. It has lots of dance to it actually there is all dance to a floor routine except tumbling lines and standing back-tucks or front-tucks. A tumbling line is a lot of tricks put together. I have three tumbling lines, most people do. Mine go round-off back-handspring back-layout, front-handspring round-off back- handspring, and round-off back-handspring back-tuck. In the Olympics there are much harder tumbling lines that are very complex!

7. See if you have the skills of a champion!

36. Shawn Johnson is 17 years old and her birthday is January 19 th. She has won a gold medal on women’s balance beam, and a silver medal all around At the Beijing Olympics, which makes Shawn Johnson a gold medalist all around in America.

37. Nastia Lukin is an all time world famous champion. She won the 2008 all around gold medal, in 2007 she won on balance beam and in 2005 she won on uneven bars. With all those medals plus more it makes Nastia an American gymnast having won the most medals in a single non- boycotted Olympic games.