Gymnastics

qas: question: What is the maximum length of a runway?
answers: text: 25 meters

question: Who gets to chose where a gymnast starts to run on the runway?
answers: text: The gymnast

question: What position is the gymnast when in the air?
answers: text: a standing position

question: What are later added to the landing by advanced gymnasts?
answers: text: multiple twists and somersaults

question: What do successful vaults depend on other than speed of the run?
answers: text: the length of the hurdle, the power the gymnast generates from the legs and shoulder girdle, the kinesthetic awareness in the air, and the speed of rotation

question: When does a gymnast put both hands in the air?

question: What is kicking?

question: What do the judges choose?

question: What is it called when gymnasts do routines with their team?
context: Gymnasts sprint down a runway, which is a maximum of 25 meters in length, before hurdling onto a spring board. The gymnast is allowed to choose where they start on the runway. The body position is maintained while "punching" (blocking using only a shoulder movement) the vaulting platform. The gymnast then rotates to a standing position. In advanced gymnastics, multiple twists and somersaults may be added before landing. Successful vaults depend on the speed of the run, the length of the hurdle, the power the gymnast generates from the legs and shoulder girdle, the kinesthetic awareness in the air, and the speed of rotation in the case of more difficult and complex vaults.

qas: question: What rules state that only women can compete in rhythmic gymastics?
answers: text: FIG

question: What does rhythmic gymastics combine together?
answers: text: ballet, gymnastics, dance, and apparatus manipulation

question: What five seperate apparatuses are used in the five separate routines?
answers: text: ball, ribbon, hoop, clubs, rope

question: Which is more focused on, aesthetics or acrobatics?
answers: text: aesthetic

question: How many possible points are there for rhythmic routines?
answers: text: 30 points

question: What rules determine what women are allowed to wear?

question: What places a greater emphasis on the acrobatic rather than the aesthetic?

question: What items do men use?

question: What sport combines elements of jumping, bars, and tumbling?

question: How many points do gymnasts need to get to the second round?
context: According to FIG rules, only women compete in rhythmic gymnastics. This is a sport that combines elements of ballet, gymnastics, dance, and apparatus manipulation. The sport involves the performance of five separate routines with the use of five apparatus; ball, ribbon, hoop, clubs, rope—on a floor area, with a much greater emphasis on the aesthetic rather than the acrobatic. There are also group routines consisting of 5 gymnasts and 5 apparatuses of their choice. Rhythmic routines are scored out of a possible 30 points; the score for artistry (choreography and music) is averaged with the score for difficulty of the moves and then added to the score for execution.

qas: question: What does AGG stand for?
answers: text: Aesthetic Group Gymnastics

question: Why is AGG different than Rhythmic Gymnastics? 
answers: text: body movement is large and continuous and teams are larger'

question: Do athletes use apparatuses in the international AGG competitions?
answers: text: do not use apparatus in international AGG competitions

question: What physical qualities are needed for rhythmic gymastics? 
answers: text: flexibility, balance, speed, strength, coordination and sense of rhythm

question: What year was the Federsation of Aesthetic Group Gymnastics established?
answers: text: 2003

question: What is another name for Rhythmic Gymnastics?

question: What is used on the floor area in AGG?

question: What characterized a bad performance?

question: In what year did AGG begin?

question: What language does the word expression come from?
context: Aesthetic Group Gymnastics (AGG) was developed from the Finnish "naisvoimistelu". It differs from Rhythmic Gymnastics in that body movement is large and continuous and teams are larger' Athletes do not use apparatus in international AGG competitions compared to Rhythmic Gymnastics where ball, ribbon, hoop and clubs are used on the floor area. The sport requires physical qualities such as flexibility, balance, speed, strength, coordination and sense of rhythm where movements of the body are emphasized through the flow, expression and aesthetic appeal. A good performance is characterized by uniformity and simultaneity. The competition program consists of versatile and varied body movements, such as body waves, swings, balances, pivots, jumps and leaps, dance steps, and lifts. The International Federation of Aesthetic Group Gymnastics (IFAGG) was established in 2003.

qas: question: What is the rope made out of that the gymnists uses in their routine?
answers: text: hemp or a synthetic material

question: How long is the rope?
answers: text: Its length is in proportion to the size of the gymnast

question: What are at the ends of the ropes to help the gymnists hold it?
answers: text: One or two knots at each end are for keeping hold of the rope while doing the routine.

question: What other requirement is there for the rope?
answers: text: The rope must be coloured, either all or partially and may either be of a uniform diameter or be progressively thicker in the center

question: When did FIG decide to nullify the use of ropes in competition?
answers: text: 2011

question: What is made out of cotton and reeds?

question: Why are the ropes covered in powder?

question: What is the anti-slip material made from?

question: In what year were ropes first used in the Gymnastic World Championships?

question: What is the length of gymnast head bands?
context: This apparatus may be made of hemp or a synthetic material which retains the qualities of lightness and suppleness. Its length is in proportion to the size of the gymnast. The rope should, when held down by the feet, reach both of the gymnasts' armpits. One or two knots at each end are for keeping hold of the rope while doing the routine. At the ends (to the exclusion of all other parts of the rope) an anti-slip material, either coloured or neutral may cover a maximum of 10 cm (3.94 in). The rope must be coloured, either all or partially and may either be of a uniform diameter or be progressively thicker in the center provided that this thickening is of the same material as the rope. The fundamental requirements of a rope routine include leaps and skipping. Other elements include swings, throws, circles, rotations and figures of eight. In 2011, the FIG decided to nullify the use of rope in rhythmic gymnastic competitions.

qas: question: Where was the FIG founded?
answers: text: Liege

question: What year was FIG founded?
answers: text: 1881

question: When was gymnastics included in the Olympics?
answers: text: 1896

question: When were the first women's Olympic competitions held?
answers: text: 1928

question: Where were the first women's Olympic competitions held?
answers: text: in Amsterdam

question: What year was the BIT founded?

question: Where were the first Olympic Games held?

question: What events were in the first men's gymnastics?

question: When did athletes start getting medals?

question: When did the first South American country compete in the Olympic Games?
context: The Federation of International Gymnastics (FIG) was founded in Liege in 1881. By the end of the nineteenth century, men's gymnastics competition was popular enough to be included in the first "modern" Olympic Games in 1896. From then on until the early 1950s, both national and international competitions involved a changing variety of exercises gathered under the rubric, gymnastics, that would seem strange to today's audiences and that included for example, synchronized team floor calisthenics, rope climbing, high jumping, running, and horizontal ladder. During the 1920s, women organized and participated in gymnastics events. The first women's Olympic competition was primitive, only involving synchronized calisthenics and track and field. These games were held in 1928, in Amsterdam.

qas: question: How long is the run way in vaulting?
answers: text: 25 metres (82 ft)

question: How man feet do vaulters land on?
answers: text: a two footed landing

question: What determines where a vaulter starts on the runway?
answers: text: their height and strength

question: What is a round-off entry vault called?
answers: text: Yurchenko

question: What is the most common vault in elite level gymnastics?
answers: text: yurchenko

question: What factors in to a gymnast's score?

question: What do gymnasts do while waiting for their turn?

question: What vault leaves gymnasts in a hand stand?

question: In what kind of events do gymnasts jump through fire?

question: What is the most dangerous vault in elite gymnastics?
context: In the vaulting events, gymnasts sprint down a 25 metres (82 ft) runway, jump onto a spring filled board or perform a roundoff, or handspring entry onto a springboard (run/ take-off segment), land momentarily, inverted on the hands on the vaulting horse, or vaulting table (pre flight segment), then propel themselves forward or backward, off of this platform to a two footed landing (post flight segment). Every gymnast starts at a different point on the vault runway depending on their height and strength. The post flight segment may include one or more multiple saltos or somersaults, and/or twisting movements. A round-off entry vault, called a Yurchenko, is the most common vault in elite level gymnastics. When performing a yurchenko, gymnasts "round-off" so hands are on the runway while the feet land on the springboard (beatboard). From the roundoff position the gymnast travels backwards and executes a backhandspring so that the hands land on the vaulting table. The gymnast then blocks off the vaulting platform into various twisting and/or somersaulting combinations. The post flight segment brings the gymnast to her feet.

qas: question: How are gymnasts scored?
answers: text: from deductions taken from their start value

question: How is the start vaule determined?
answers: text: e start value of a routine is based on the difficulty of the elements the gymnast attempts and whether or not the gymnast meets composition requirements

question: What is this score called?
answers: text: D score

question: Deductions in execution and artistry are taken from what score?
answers: text: 10.0

question: What were added to scoring in 2007?
answers: text: adding bonus plus the execution and then adding those two together to get the final score

question: What is another name for a 10.0?

question: What is it called when a gymnast barely passes?

question: What score is determined by the fans?

question: When was the E score first implemented?

question: What deductions are taken from the E score?
context: A gymnast's score comes from deductions taken from their start value. The start value of a routine is based on the difficulty of the elements the gymnast attempts and whether or not the gymnast meets composition requirements. The composition requirements are different for each apparatus; this score is called the D score. Deductions in execution and artistry are taken from 10.0. This score is called the E score. The final score is calculated by taking deductions from the E score, and adding the result to the D score. Since 2007, the scoring system has changed by adding bonus plus the execution and then adding those two together to get the final score.

qas: question: When were the technical rules for the Japanses version of men's rhythmic gymnastics formed?
answers: text: 1970s

question: How many apparatuses are used?
answers: text: only four types

question: What are the types of apparatuses used?
answers: text: the double rings, the stick, the rope, and the clubs

question: What apparatuses do groups use?
answers: text: Groups do not use any apparatus

question: When did Japan hold the first of the Men's Rhythmic Gymnastics World Champtionship?
answers: text: November 27–29, 2003

question: When did the technical rules for women's rhythmic gymnastics come around?

question: What does the Soviet version include?

question: When did China first host the Men's Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championship?

question: What apparatus types are only used in Japan?

question: Who hosted the first Gymnastics World Championship?
context: The technical rules for the Japanese version of men's rhythmic gymnastics came around the 1970s. For individuals, only four types of apparatus are used: the double rings, the stick, the rope, and the clubs. Groups do not use any apparatus. The Japanese version includes tumbling performed on a spring floor. Points are awarded based a 10-point scale that measures the level of difficulty of the tumbling and apparatus handling. On November 27–29, 2003, Japan hosted first edition of the Men's Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championship.

qas: question: What Greek word did gymnastics derive from?
answers: text: γυμνός (gymnos) meaning "naked"

question: What does the  verb gymnazo mean?
answers: text: to train naked", "train in gymnastic exercise", generally "to train, to exercise"

question: Why was this verb used?
answers: text: because athletes in ancient times exercised and competed without clothing

question: When did the word come into use?
answers: text: 1570s

question: When did gymnasts start competing with clothing?

question: What does the word gymnoto mean?

question: What greek noun means "naked"?

question: What language does gymnazein come from?

question: What word means playing in the gymnasium?
context: The word gymnastics derives from the common Greek adjective γυμνός (gymnos) meaning "naked", by way of the related verb γυμνάζω (gymnazo), whose meaning is to train naked", "train in gymnastic exercise", generally "to train, to exercise". The verb had this meaning, because athletes in ancient times exercised and competed without clothing. It came into use in the 1570s, from Latin gymnasticus, from Greek gymnastikos "fond of or skilled in bodily exercise," from gymnazein "to exercise or train" (see gymnasium).

qas: question: What year was the Olympic Games apparatus and events standardized?
answers: text: 1954

question: What is the grading structure?
answers: text: a point system from 1 to 15

question: Who set the first precedent that continues this day?
answers: text: Soviet gymnasts

question: Who recieved the first perfect score?
answers: text: Nadia Comăneci

question: What year and where was the first perfect score given?
answers: text: 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada

question: When did men and women start wearing matching uniforms?

question: Who wanted the Olympic games to be held every year?

question: What medium gave gymnasts a bad reputation?

question: Who received a perfect score at the 1980 Olympics?

question: Who was the first gymnastics judge?
context: By 1954, Olympic Games apparatus and events for both men and women had been standardized in modern format, and uniform grading structures (including a point system from 1 to 15) had been agreed upon. At this time, Soviet gymnasts astounded the world with highly disciplined and difficult performances, setting a precedent that continues. The new medium of television has helped publicize and initiate a modern age of gymnastics. Both men's and women's gymnastics now attract considerable international interest, and excellent gymnasts can be found on every continent. Nadia Comăneci received the first perfect score, at the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada. She was coached in Romania by coach, (Hungarian ethnicity), Béla Károlyi. Comaneci scored four of her perfect tens on the uneven bars, two on the balance beam and one in the floor exercise. Even with Nadia's perfect scores, the Romanians lost the gold medal to the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, Comaneci became an Olympic icon.

qas: question: What does a typical pommel horse exercise consist of?
answers: text: both single leg and double leg work

question: Single leg skills are found in the form of what normally?
answers: text: form of scissors, an element often done on the pommels

question: What is the main staple of this event?
answers: text: Double leg work

question: When does the routine end?
answers: text: when the gymnast performs a dismount

question: What are two ways that a gymnist dismounts?
answers: text: by swinging his body over the horse, or landing after a handstand

question: What exercise involves single arm and double arm work?

question: What is it called when a gymnast cartwheels on a pommel horse?

question: When do routines begin?

question: Why do gymnasts dismount?
context: A typical pommel horse exercise involves both single leg and double leg work. Single leg skills are generally found in the form of scissors, an element often done on the pommels. Double leg work however, is the main staple of this event. The gymnast swings both legs in a circular motion (clockwise or counterclockwise depending on preference) and performs such skills on all parts of the apparatus. To make the exercise more challenging, gymnasts will often include variations on a typical circling skill by turning (moores and spindles) or by straddling their legs (Flares). Routines end when the gymnast performs a dismount, either by swinging his body over the horse, or landing after a handstand. This requires back muscles to do any sort of skill. From handstands being easy to back or front flips being a little difficult.

qas: question: What is a critical skill in terms of execution in scores?
answers: text: landing

question: Where do most injuries happen?
answers: text: the lower extremities such as: cartilage lesions, ligament tears, and bone bruises/fractures

question: How do you avoid injuries?
answers: text: proper technique must be used by the gymnast

question: What is a successful landing?
answers: text: soft, meaning the knee and hip joints are at greater than 63 degrees of flexion

question: What kind of pass limits injuries?

question: What injuries are caused when using the wrong mat?

question: In what kind of landing are the knee and hip joints at less than 63 degrees of flexion? 

question: What is the most dangerous gymnastic routine?

question: What kind of landings cause gymnasts to lose points?
context: In a tumbling pass, dismount or vault, landing is the final phase, following take off and flight  This is a critical skill in terms of execution in competition scores, general performance, and injury occurrence. Without the necessary magnitude of energy dissipation during impact, the risk of sustaining injuries during somersaulting increases. These injuries commonly occur at the lower extremities such as: cartilage lesions, ligament tears, and bone bruises/fractures. To avoid such injuries, and to receive a high performance score, proper technique must be used by the gymnast. "The subsequent ground contact or impact landing phase must be achieved using a safe, aesthetic and well-executed double foot landing."  A successful landing in gymnastics is classified as soft, meaning the knee and hip joints are at greater than 63 degrees of flexion.

qas: question: Individual routines start with what phases?
answers: text: build-up phase during which the gymnast jumps repeatedly to achieve height

question: What does the gymnast do during the 10 bounces.
answers: text: a sequence of aerial skills

question: What is the maximum scroe for routines?
answers: text: 10 points

question: How can additional points be earned?
answers: text: depending on the difficulty of the moves and the length of time taken to complete the ten skills

question: In high level competitions how many preliminary rountines are there?
answers: text: two preliminary routines

question: What routines involve the gymnast jumping once to achieve height?

question: How many moves must be shown to the judges?

question: What happens if a gymnast falls down?

question: How many preliminary routines are there in novice competitions?

question: What happens if the athlete does not know the assigned moves?
context: Individual routines in trampolining involve a build-up phase during which the gymnast jumps repeatedly to achieve height, followed by a sequence of ten bounces without pause during which the gymnast performs a sequence of aerial skills. Routines are marked out of a maximum score of 10 points. Additional points (with no maximum at the highest levels of competition) can be earned depending on the difficulty of the moves and the length of time taken to complete the ten skills which is an indication of the average height of the jumps. In high level competitions, there are two preliminary routines, one which has only two moves scored for difficulty and one where the athlete is free to perform any routine. This is followed by a final routine which is optional. Some competitions restart the score from zero for the finals, other add the final score to the preliminary results.

qas: question: What are the uneven bars?
answers: text: two horizontal bars set at different heights

question: What are these bars made out of?
answers: text: fiberglass covered in wood laminate

question: Why are the bars not made of wood anymore?
answers: text: the bars were prone to breaking,

question: How have the bars changed over the years?
answers: text: They've been moved increasingly further apart

question: How do gymnasts normally mount the uneven bars?
answers: text: using a springboard, or a small mat

question: Why are uneven bars round?

question: What did gymnasts do to accommodate taller people? 

question: What are gymnasts prohibited from using with uneven bars?

question: What purpose to hand wraps serve?
context: On the uneven bars, the gymnast performs a routine on two horizontal bars set at different heights. These bars are made of fiberglass covered in wood laminate, to prevent them from breaking. In the past, bars were made of wood, but the bars were prone to breaking, providing an incentive to switch to newer technologies. The width and height of the bars may be adjusted. In the past, the uneven parallel bars were closer together. They've been moved increasingly further apart, allowing gymnasts to perform swinging, circling, transitional, and release moves, that may pass over, under, and between the two bars. At the Elite level, movements must pass through the handstand. Gymnasts often mount the Uneven Bars using a springboard, or a small mat. Chalk and grips (a leather strip with holes for fingers to protect hands and improve performance) may be used while doing this event. The chalk helps take the moisture out of gymnast's hands to decrease friction and prevent rips (tears to the skin of the hands), dowel grips help gymnasts grip the bar.

qas: question: What does a higher flight phase result in?
answers: text: a higher vertical ground reaction force

question: What is vertical ground reaction force?
answers: text: s external force which the gymnasts have to overcome with their muscle force and has an impact on the gymnasts linear and angular momentum

question: What else is an important aspect that affects linear and agular movements?
answers: text: time the landing takes Gymnasts

question: What does horizontal ground reaction force represent?

question: What overcomes internal force?

question: What happens when gymnasts decrease the time taken to perform the landing?

question: How do gymnasts decrease the time taken to perform the landing?

question: What results in a lower vertical ground reaction force?
context: A higher flight phase results in a higher vertical ground reaction force. Vertical ground reaction force represents external force which the gymnasts have to overcome with their muscle force and has an impact on the gymnasts linear and angular momentum. Another important variable that affects linear and angular momentum is time the landing takes Gymnasts can alter the shape of the area by increasing the time taken to perform the landing. Gymnasts can achieve this by increasing hip, knee and ankle amplitude. With the increase of height, the amplitude in ankles knees and hips rise the bars.

qas: question: What was aerobic gymnastics called orginally?
answers: text: Sport Aerobics

question: What does aerobic gymnastiscs involve?
answers: text: the performance of routines by individuals, pairs, trios or groups up to 6 people, emphasizing strength, flexibility, and aerobic fitness

question: How many people can be in a routine?
answers: text: individuals, pairs, trios or groups up to 6 people

question: What is the size of the mat?
answers: text: 7x7m

question: How long do the routines last?
answers: text: Routines generally last 60–90 seconds depending on age of participant and routine category

question: What involves the performance of routines by groups of up to 10 people?

question: What is the minimum floor size allowed by the FIG?

question: How long do judges have to submit final scores?

question: When did aerobic gymnastics begin?

question: What determines what props groups can bring?
context: Aerobic gymnastics (formally Sport Aerobics) involves the performance of routines by individuals, pairs, trios or groups up to 6 people, emphasizing strength, flexibility, and aerobic fitness rather than acrobatic or balance skills. Routines are performed for all individuals on a 7x7m floor and also for 12–14 and 15-17 trios and mixed pairs. From 2009, all senior trios and mixed pairs were required to be on the larger floor (10x10m), all groups also perform on this floor. Routines generally last 60–90 seconds depending on age of participant and routine category.

qas: question: What kind of routines do general gymnastic groups perform?
answers: text: synchronized, choreographed routines

question: What do the troupes consist of?
answers: text: of both genders and are not separated into age divisions

question: When was the first World Gymnaestrada held?
answers: text: 1939

question: What was the first Sport Program recongized by FIG?
answers: text: Gymnastics for All

question: How many participants are there?
answers: text: 30 million

question: What gymnastics are separated into age divisions?

question: In what year did gymnastics first include men?

question: What enables people of all ages to participate in performance groups of 5 or less?

question: How many gymnasts are governed by FIG?

question: In what year did gymnastics start having group performances?
context: General gymnastics enables people of all ages and abilities to participate in performance groups of 6 to more than 150 athletes. They perform synchronized, choreographed routines. Troupes may consist of both genders and are not separated into age divisions. The largest general gymnastics exhibition is the quadrennial World Gymnaestrada which was first held in 1939. In 1984 Gymnastics for All was officially recognized first as a Sport Program by the FIG (International Gymnastic Federation), and subsequently by national gymnastic federations worldwide with participants that now number 30 million.

qas: question: What is gymnastics?
answers: text: Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of exercises requiring strength, flexibility, balance and control

question: Who governs all events in gymnastics?
answers: text: Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG)

question: What does each country have?
answers: text: Each country has its own national governing body (BIW) affiliated to FIG

question: What are the best known gymnastic events?
answers: text: Competitive artistic gymnastics

question: What events does this normally consist of for women?
answers: text: vault, uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise.

question: What are the children's events?

question: What gymnastic event was discontinued?

question: Who were the first to use still rings?

question: What sport evolved from polo?

question: What does each city have?
context: Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of exercises requiring strength, flexibility, balance and control. Internationally, all events are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG). Each country has its own national governing body (BIW) affiliated to FIG. Competitive artistic gymnastics is the best known of the gymnastic events. It typically involves the women's events of vault, uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise. Men's events are floor exercise, pommel horse, still rings, vault, parallel bars, and the high bar. Gymnastics evolved from exercises used by the ancient Greeks that included skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and from circus performance skills.

qas: question: What two Germans were known for creating exercises on apparauses?
answers: text: Johann Friedrich GutsMuths (1759–1839) and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778–1852)

question: What did the exercises lead to?
answers: text: to what is considered modern gymnastics

question: Who introduced educative gymnastics in France?
answers: text: Don Francisco Amorós y Ondeano

question: What did Jahn promote the use of?
answers: text: parallel bars, rings and high bar

question: Who was born on February 18, 1770?

question: Who was a Spanish admiral?

question: Who created exercises for girls?

question: Who was the first person to introduce educative gymnastic in Italy?

question: Who designed what led to ancient gymnastics?
context: In the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Germany, three pioneer physical educators – Johann Friedrich GutsMuths (1759–1839) and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778–1852) – created exercises for boys and young men on apparatus they had designed that ultimately led to what is considered modern gymnastics. Don Francisco Amorós y Ondeano, was born on February 19, 1770 in Valence and died on August 8, 1848 in Paris. He was a Spanish colonel, and the first person to introduce educative gymnastic in France. Jahn promoted the use of parallel bars, rings and high bar in international competition.

qas: question: When did FIG decide that scores are no longer limited to 10 points?
answers: text: 2006

question: What are the two different scores?
answers: text: an execution score and a difficulty score

question: What score was added?
answers: text: difficulty score

question: How much is a fall deduction?
answers: text: 1.00 deduction

question: What is a gymnast's difficulty score based on?
answers: text: what elements they perform

question: When were scores first limited to 10 points?

question: Which score was thought to be more important?

question: What bonus is awarded if the gymnast arrives on time?

question: What is the minimum gymnastics score?

question: What is used to determine an execution score?
context: In 2006, FIG introduced a new points system for Artistic gymnastics in which scores are no longer limited to 10 points. The system is used in the US for elite level competition. Unlike the old code of points, there are two separate scores, an execution score and a difficulty score. In the previous system, the "execution score" was the only score. It was and still is out of 10.00. During the gymnast's performance, the judges deduct this score only. A fall, on or off the event, is a 1.00 deduction, in elite level gymnastics. The introduction of the difficulty score is a significant change. The gymnast's difficulty score is based on what elements they perform and is subject to change if they do not perform or complete all the skills, or they do not connect a skill meant to be connected to another. Connection bonuses are the most common deduction from a difficulty score, as it can be difficult to connect multiple flight elements. It is very hard to connect skills if the first skill is not performed correctly. The new code of points allows the gymnasts to gain higher scores based on the difficulty of the skills they perform as well as their execution. There is no maximum score for difficulty, as it can keep increasing as the difficulty of the skills increase.

qas: question: What is the floor exercise events performed on now?
answers: text: a carpeted 12m × 12m square, usually consisting of hard foam over a layer of plywood

question: What was the floor exercise even on before?
answers: text: the bare floor or mats such as wrestling mats

question: Why helps add an extra bounce to the floor?
answers: text: springs or foam blocks generally called a "spring" floor

question: What is the maximum for floor events?
answers: text: up to 90 seconds

question: What kind of surface is banned from the Olympics?

question: What advantage to wrestling mats have over spring floors?

question: How long do gymnasts have to rest between routines?

question: What happens if a gymnast only used three tumbling lines?

question: How many tumbling passes are required for level 6?
context: In the past, the floor exercise event was executed on the bare floor or mats such as wrestling mats. Today, the floor event occurs on a carpeted 12m × 12m square, usually consisting of hard foam over a layer of plywood, which is supported by springs or foam blocks generally called a "spring" floor. This provides a firm surface that provides extra bounce or spring when compressed, allowing gymnasts to achieve greater height and a softer landing after the composed skill. Gymnasts perform a choreographed routine up to 90 seconds in the floor exercise event; Depending on the level, they may choose their own, or, if known as a "compulsory gymnast," default music must be played. In some gymnastic associations such as United States Association of Gymnastic Clubs (USAIGC), gymnasts are allowed to have vocals in their music but at USA Gymnastics competitions a large deduction is taken from the score for having vocals in the music. The routine should consist of tumbling lines, series of jumps, leaps, dance elements, acrobatic skills, and turns, or piviots, on one foot. A gymnast can perform up to four tumbling lines that usually includes at least one flight element without hand support. Each level of gymnastics requires the athlete to perform a different number of tumbling passes. In level 7 in the United States, a gymnast is required to do 2–3, and in levels 8–10, at least 3–4 tumbling passes are required.

qas: question: What do athletes perform for tumbling?
answers: text: an explosive series of flips and twists down a sprung tumbling track

question: When was tumbling orginally contested at the Olympics?
answers: text: 1932

question: Where are offical tumbling competitions allowed?
answers: text: only allowed as an event in Trampoline gymnastics meets

question: What year did FIG reconginze Trampoline and Acrobatic Gymnastics?
answers: text: 1999

question: What is involved in trampolining?

question: When were the first Pan American Games

question: What restriction was placed on tumbling in 1997?

question: What year did the Trampoline Championships begin?

question: What was contested as one of the events in Men's Artistic Gymnastics at the 1938 Summer Olympics?
context: In tumbling, athletes perform an explosive series of flips and twists down a sprung tumbling track. Scoring is similar to trampolining. Tumbling was originally contested as one of the events in Men's Artistic Gymnastics at the 1932 Summer Olympics, and in 1955 and 1959 at the Pan American Games. From 1974 to 1998 it was included as an event for both genders at the Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships. The event has also been contested since 1976 at the Trampoline World Championships. Since the recognition of Trampoline and Acrobatic Gymnastics as FIG disciplines in 1999, official Tumbling competitions are only allowed as an event in Trampoline gymnastics meets.

qas: question: What are mens' rhythmic gymnastics related to?
answers: text: both Men's artistic gymnastics and wushu martial arts

question: Where did mens' rhythmic gymnastics develop from?
answers: text: stick gymnastics

question: What is the aim of stick gymnastics?
answers: text: improving physical strength and health

question: What are the main focus?
answers: text: tumbling, strength, power, and martial arts skills are the main focus

question: How many mens' rhythmic gymnasts were in Japan in 2002?
answers: text: 1000

question: What is related to Women's artistic gymnastics and hop scotch?

question: Where is dancing most popular?

question: What country practices an unusual form of rhythmic gymnastics?

question: Where did gymnastic begin?

question: Why do people in Japan eat a diet high in fiber?
context: Men's rhythmic gymnastics is related to both Men's artistic gymnastics and wushu martial arts. It emerged in Japan from stick gymnastics. Stick gymnastics has been taught and performed for many years with the aim of improving physical strength and health. Male athletes are judged on some of the same physical abilities and skills as their female counterparts, such as hand/body-eye co-ordination, but tumbling, strength, power, and martial arts skills are the main focus, as opposed to flexibility and dance in women's rhythmic gymnastics. There are a growing number of participants, competing alone and on a team; it is most popular in Asia, especially in Japan where high school and university teams compete fiercely. As of 2002[update], there were 1000 men's rhythmic gymnasts in Japan.[citation needed]