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Gymnastics Trivia
Flip into 150 gymnastics trivia questions covering Olympic legends like Nadia Comăneci and Simone Biles, perfect 10s, artistic, rhythmic and trampoline disciplines, apparatus rules, famous skills, scoring history, and unforgettable Olympic moments.
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How many apparatus do women compete on in Olympic artistic gymnastics?
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How long must a strength hold on still rings be held to receive credit?
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Which 2015 comedy stars Melissa Rauch as a foul-mouthed former Olympic bronze-medal gymnast?
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Gymnastics chalk is made of which chemical compound?
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Which apparatus is contested only by women in artistic gymnastics?
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What nickname did Gabby Douglas earn for her soaring uneven bars release moves?
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Trampoline made its Olympic debut at which Games?
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Nicknamed "Clark Kent" for his glasses, which American pommel horse specialist won two bronze medals at Paris 2024?
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Which network premiered "The Gabby Douglas Story" in 2014?
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On which apparatus do male gymnasts perform the strength hold known as the Iron Cross?
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What body position has a gymnast fully stretched out straight during a flip?
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Who won the women's all-around gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics?
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Which Russian gymnast won Olympic uneven bars gold at both London 2012 and Rio 2016?
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In which city did Simone Biles win her second Olympic all-around title in 2024?
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In which year did the vaulting table replace the traditional vaulting horse at major competitions?
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On which men's apparatus must gymnasts perform continuous circles and scissors without stopping?
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At which Olympics did Mary Lou Retton become the first American woman to win the all-around gold?
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Oksana Chusovitina competed at a record how many Olympic Games as a gymnast?
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Who built the first modern trampoline in 1936 with his coach Larry Griswold?
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The one-piece garment worn by gymnasts is named after a 19th-century French acrobat. What is it called?
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At Paris 2024, which country won women's team silver for its first Olympic team medal since 1928?
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In which Swiss city is the FIG headquartered?
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Which famous coach carried an injured Kerri Strug to the medal podium in 1996?
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The 2016 U.S. women's team named itself the "Final Five" partly to honor which retiring national team coordinator?
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McKayla Maroney's viral 2012 podium face became known as what meme?
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By what margin did Tatiana Gutsu edge Shannon Miller for the 1992 Olympic all-around gold?
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Who was the youngest member of the 2024 U.S. women's Olympic gymnastics team?
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Before the scoring system changed in 2006, what was the perfect score in gymnastics?
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Nastia Liukin's father Valeri was the first gymnast to land which skill in competition?
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Whose record of 18 Olympic medals stood until Michael Phelps broke it in 2012?
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What is the title of Simone Biles's 2024 Netflix docuseries?
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What animal did Simone Biles wear in rhinestones on her leotard, a nod to being the "greatest of all time"?
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The word "trampoline" comes from the Spanish "trampolín," which means what?
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Which British gymnast won Olympic pommel horse gold at both Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020?
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What is the minimum length of a senior rhythmic gymnastics ribbon?
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The pommel horse evolved from wooden devices used to practice what skill?
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Gymnastics has been part of every modern Summer Olympics since which year?
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What is the competition called in which a gymnast's scores on every apparatus are added together?
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How many Olympic gold medals did Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina win?
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In what year did Béla and Márta Károlyi defect from Romania to the United States?
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Which basic move is named for its resemblance to a turning wagon wheel?
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Which event, contested in Olympic gymnastics until 1932, had athletes race up a vertical apparatus?
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What body position has a gymnast pulling the knees tightly to the chest?
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Who became the first American woman to win the World all-around title, in 1991?
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Which Olympic gymnast won Season 8 of "Dancing with the Stars" in 2009?
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In what year did Nadia Comăneci score the first perfect 10 at the Olympics?
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Who won the women's all-around gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics?
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What was Olga Korbut's famous nickname?
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Olga Korbut, the darling of the 1972 Munich Olympics, competed for which nation?
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Since 2006, a gymnast's score is the sum of a Difficulty score and what other score?
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Which American won the 2004 Olympic men's all-around title amid a famous scoring controversy?
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"Nadia's Theme," linked to Comăneci through ABC's 1976 montages, is best known as the theme of which soap opera?
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What do the initials FIG, the sport's world governing body, stand for?
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In which city did the U.S. "Final Five" win Olympic team gold?
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The U.S. women's team nicknamed the "Magnificent Seven" won Olympic team gold in which year?
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Besides difficulty and execution, Olympic trampoline scores include horizontal displacement and which measured element?
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The original floor skill named "The Biles" is a double layout with what added?
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How many total Olympic medals has Simone Biles won across Rio, Tokyo and Paris?
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What was the German name for the 19th-century gymnastics clubs founded by followers of Friedrich Jahn?
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Which men's apparatus is also commonly called the "high bar"?
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What do gymnasts call landing perfectly without moving their feet?
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In 2022, Simone Biles became the youngest person ever to receive which honor?
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Olympic gold medalist Mitch Gaylord starred in which 1986 gymnastics film?
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German Carl Schuhmann won gymnastics gold at the 1896 Olympics and also an Olympic title in which other sport?
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Which three-time 1984 gold medalist lit the Olympic cauldron in Beijing in 2008 and founded a sportswear brand?
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At Moscow 1980, which Soviet gymnast became the first athlete to win eight medals at a single Olympics?
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Which city hosted the Olympics where Nadia Comăneci scored her famous perfect 10?
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At the 1976 Olympics, who became the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 on vault?
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What is the name of Simone Biles's family-owned gym in Spring, Texas?
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Before Simone Biles, which gymnast held the American record with seven Olympic medals?
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In which year did gymnastics abandon the "perfect 10" scoring system internationally?
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Which Romanian was stripped of her 2000 Olympic all-around gold after a positive test caused by cold medicine?
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Competing for the Unified Team, who won six gold medals at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics?
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In 2019, Simone Biles became the first woman to land which skill on floor in competition?
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Simone Biles was born in which U.S. state?
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After a court ruling, the Paris 2024 floor bronze was reassigned from Jordan Chiles to which Romanian?
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Nadia Comăneci competed for which country?
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What was the name of the U.S. national team training center in Texas that closed in 2018?
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How many perfect 10s did Nadia Comăneci earn at the 1976 Olympics?
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Rebeca Andrade, who beat Simone Biles for floor gold at Paris 2024, represents which country?
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Which apparatus is only about 10 centimeters (4 inches) wide?
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What is the maximum length of a women's floor exercise routine?
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Sunisa Lee was the first gymnast of which heritage to compete for the U.S. at the Olympics?
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In which city did the U.S. "Fierce Five" win Olympic team gold?
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What white powder do gymnasts rub on their hands to improve grip?
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Founded in Prague in 1862, what was the name of the Czech gymnastics and national-identity movement?
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Which husband-and-wife coaching duo guided Simone Biles to her Paris 2024 golds?
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Which reigning world all-around champion missed the 2012 Olympic all-around final because of the two-per-country rule?
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In which city did Kerri Strug make her famous one-footed vault landing?
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Which gymnast captained both the 2012 and 2016 U.S. women's Olympic teams?
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How many gymnasts perform together in an Olympic rhythmic gymnastics group routine?
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What is the name for the final skill that ends a routine on bars or beam?
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Who won the men's all-around gold at the Paris 2024 Olympics?
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Aly Raisman won 2012 Olympic floor gold performing to which traditional Jewish song?
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Who won the women's all-around gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics?
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Which unusual event using bottle-shaped wooden clubs was part of Olympic gymnastics in 1904 and 1932?
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Which Swede pioneered "Swedish gymnastics" and founded the Royal Central Gymnastics Institute in 1813?
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How long is a competition balance beam?
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How old was Nadia Comăneci when she scored her first Olympic perfect 10?
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Simone Biles was raised and adopted by whom?
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Which member of the "Magnificent Seven" was nicknamed "Awesome Dawesome"?
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Who won Brazil's first Olympic gymnastics gold, on still rings at London 2012?
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Which Japanese gymnast lends his name to a vault family with a half turn onto the table and a backward salto off?
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The FIG, considered the world's oldest existing international sports federation, was founded in which year?
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Kerri Strug famously landed her final Olympic vault while injured in what body part?
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Which vault was officially named the "Biles II" in 2023?
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A start-value error on which apparatus fueled the 2004 men's all-around controversy involving Yang Tae-young?
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How many World Championship medals had Simone Biles won by the end of 2023, a record?
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The word "gymnastics" comes from the Greek word "gymnos," which means what?
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Women's individual apparatus events were first held at the Olympics in which year?
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Which Japanese gymnast won eight Olympic gold medals, the most by any male gymnast?
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Japan's men won five consecutive Olympic team titles beginning in which year?
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In 2012, who became the first Black gymnast to win the Olympic women's all-around title?
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How many apparatus do men compete on in Olympic artistic gymnastics?
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2004 all-around champion Paul Hamm competed alongside his twin brother. What is his name?
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China was stripped of its 2000 Olympic women's team bronze because of which gymnast's falsified age?
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Which gymnast won balance beam gold at Paris 2024 after Simone Biles fell?
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Which women's artistic gymnastics event is performed to music?
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What is the maximum length of a men's floor exercise routine?
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At the 1975 World Cup, which Soviet champion calmly finished her dismount as the uneven bars collapsed behind her?
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American George Eyser won six gymnastics medals at the 1904 Olympics despite having what?
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Carlos Yulo won two golds at Paris 2024 to deliver which country's first Olympic gymnastics titles?
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Since 1997, female gymnasts must turn what age during the Olympic year to compete at the Games?
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Which Dutch gymnast won horizontal bar gold at London 2012 with a spectacular triple release combination?
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Because the scoreboard couldn't display a 10, how did Nadia Comăneci's perfect score appear in 1976?
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At Tokyo 2020, Germany's women's gymnasts wore full-body unitards to protest what?
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Which gymnast won Olympic uneven bars gold at both Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000?
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Which German is called the "father of gymnastics" and credited with inventing the parallel bars?
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What term did Simone Biles use for the mid-air disorientation that led her to withdraw from events at Tokyo 2020?
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Kaylia Nemour won uneven bars gold at Paris 2024, earning Africa's first Olympic gymnastics medal for which country?
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Which 1985 martial-arts action film starred Olympic gymnast Kurt Thomas?
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What score did Kerri Strug receive for her famous injured vault at the 1996 Olympics?
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Which Romanian earned seven perfect 10s at the 1988 Seoul Olympics?
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During the 2000 Sydney women's all-around, the vault was mistakenly set how much too low?
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Which two Americans bowed to Rebeca Andrade on the floor podium at Paris 2024?
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Kohei Uchimura, nicknamed "King Kohei," represented which country?
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Which gymnast is the most decorated in history, with more combined World and Olympic medals than anyone else?
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Simone Biles is married to Jonathan Owens, who plays in which pro sports league?
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Women first competed in Olympic gymnastics, in a team event, at which year's Games?
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Gabby Douglas moved to West Des Moines, Iowa, to train with which coach?
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What backward flip, often called a "flip-flop," has a gymnast push off the hands before landing on the feet?
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Which Olympic gymnastics discipline sees athletes bounce as high as 8 meters into the air?
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At the 1968 Olympics, which gymnast silently protested the Soviet invasion of her country by turning her head during the Soviet anthem?
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Who scored the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics history?
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Which discipline did the FIG add in 2018 that involves running, jumping and climbing over obstacles?
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Who won the men's all-around gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics?
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Which 2006 film starring Missy Peregrym follows a rebellious teen sent to an elite gymnastics academy?
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How high off the floor is a competition balance beam set?
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Ribbons, hoops, balls and clubs are used in which gymnastics discipline?
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Who won the women's all-around gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics?
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