Female Olympic Rings Gymnastics

The international gymnastics federation recommended to the ioc that the medals of the chinese team be stripped and awarded to the fourth placed united states team as it was revealed that dong fangxiao was underage 14 with age limit 16 at the time.

Female olympic rings gymnastics.

Among women and floor pommel horse rings vault parallel bars and high bar among men. Artistic worlds 2011 tokyo women s finals vault uneven bars we are gymnastics. So why don t female gymnasts do rings. Some say it is the uneven distribution of athletics between the genders.

Access official results for the gymnastics artistic event team rings women at the london 1948 summer games olympics plus view video highlights of top performances. And for the same reason there is no uneven bars an balance beam for men. Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display. For the same reason there is no pommel horse parallel bars and high bars for women.

I spoke with laddie bakanic 88 who had been a member of the 1948 u s. The differences are blatant and it seems like sexism is the answer behind this. American women have won 48 medals at the olympics 9 in team all around 8 in individual all around 4 in vault 8 in uneven bars 10 in balance beam and 9 in floor exercise. The ioc upheld the fig decision in april 2010.

Olympic gymnastics squads are shrinking for 2020. Gymnastics sports olympics still rings duration. But competitive gymnastics has so many differences between the women s and the men s events that you might as well be watching two different sports. Most sports like basketball soccer tennis and golf are the same regardless of whether the athletes are male or female.

The best female gymnasts aren t focusing on the rings so we have no idea of what the outer limits are for a woman who has been training on that apparatus from the start. American female gymnasts have participated in every olympic games since 1936 except for 1980. Women s gymnastics team that won a team bronze medal at the olympics and performed on the flying rings as they were known. My expectation is that they would do just fine but likely not to the same level as men with a similar level of training.