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The Thomas salto consists of a 1½ salto backward in a tucked or piked position with 1½ twists or a 1½ salto backward in a layout (straight) position with 1½ twists, landing in a forward roll on the floor. [2] The move and other skills ending with a roll on the floor are effectively banned.
The floor exercise (English abbreviation FX) is the event performed on the floor, in both women's and men's artistic gymnastics (WAG and MAG). The same floor is used for WAG FX and MAG FX, but rules and scoring differ; most obviously, a WAG FX routine is synchronised to a piece of recorded dance music , whereas MAG FX has no musical accompaniment .
The floor (or floor exercise) is an artistic gymnastics event held at the Summer Olympics. The event was first held for men at the 1932 Olympic Games . [ 1 ] For women it was first held in 1952 .
Biles (or Biles On The Floor)—A double layout with a half twist. Simone first landed this token move at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in 2013, according to Good Morning America .
A multiple-exposure image of a gymnast performing the vault at the 2012 Summer Olympics.. The handspring double salto forward tucked, known as a Produnova in women's artistic gymnastics and a Roche in men's artistic gymnastics, [1] [2] is a vault consisting of a front handspring onto the vaulting horse and two front somersaults in a tucked position off it.
In a country obsessed with gymnastics, with talent to stock a dozen Olympic teams, this team — the hardest in the world to make — is set. And now comes the even harder part. Show comments
Simone Biles has five gymnastics moves named after her — and for the first time, someone besides Biles nailed one of those moves at the Olympics.. Hillary Heron, a 20-year-old artistic gymnast ...
She is a three-time World Champion on the vault (2005–2007) and 2006 World Champion on floor exercise. She was a member of the gold medal-winning Chinese teams for the 2006 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Aarhus , Denmark and 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.