The Gymnastic
History
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The Gymnastic word sources
from greek language 'gumnos' (nude). As an activity, the gymnastic
existed during more than 2.000 years, but its development as
a competitive sport began about 100 years ago. During the years
of 1800, the individual exhibitions were administered by several
school clubs, athletic clubs and ethnic organizations like Turnvereins
and Sokols, in Germany.
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Although the slowly development to be a success in the schools, the gymnastics
bloomed in Turnvereins and in Sokols. Sells the importance this exercises,
german Frédéric Louis Jahn invented several apparels and
contributed to developing the sport in his country. Afterwardsthe the
gymnastic did spread througth Europe.
The International Federation of Gymnastics (IFG) was formed in 1881, then
it was called Agency of the European Federation of Gymnastics and it opened
the way for international competitions. In the United States, the Amateur
Athletic Union (AAU) assumed control of the gymnastics, together more
other amateur sports, in 1883. Before for these championships " of
gymnastics ", for a long time it was accomplished by several clubs
and organizations.
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president of the Belgian Federation of Gymnastics invited several
delegations of the European Union of Gymnastics to competitions,
during the Belgian festival of gymnastics in 1881, exactly when
the European Federation of Gymnastics was created (FEG) renamed
to International Federation of Gymnastics (IFG) in 21's. |
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Recently, IFG wrote new
code and established that 16 years it is the minimum age for
the athletes to participate in international competitions. That
fact is an attempt to allow an athlete to prolong his career,
that was practically only until the 17 years.
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