Gymnastics is a sport that displays strong coordination, physical agility, and flexibility of the people involved. This modern sport is divided between men and women, requiring them to compete with varying exercises. For women, gymnastics typically involves the floor, the vaulting horse, the balance beam, and uneven bars. For men, gymnastics typically involves the floor, rings, pommel horse, horizontal bars, and parallel bars. The players in this sport are the gymnasts, competing either on the individual level or in groups of teams. The communicators in this sport are the personal coaches that choreograph the gymnasts’ routines, select music for their floor exercises, as well as observe and spot the athletes as they preform their routines on the different apparatuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The internal gender dynamics of gymnastics are first seen within the audience. Women’s gymnastics is much more popular than men’s because there is more than twice as much people watching it. As a result, there is also a much higher level of participation in women’s gymnastics compared to men’s, making this sport predominately female. There aren’t many rules in gymnastics as there are in other sports. If the gymnast messes up their routine, falls, or looses balance, they get a certain amount of points deducted. This could eliminate them from moving onto the next level in the competition. My personal views on the interplay of sports and gender is that I love how the gymnastics industry is still mainly run by powerful and strong women. When most popular sports are male-dominated, it’s nice to see some female representation thats lets us have “our own thing” to be proud of, like Simone Biles winning a total of 32 Olympic and World Championship medals. Wildness in this sport means small female gymnasts are defying the laws of gravity by flying up so high in the air and doing multiple flips simultaneously.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n