Sports Report: 12 Reasons to Love Gymnastics

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Gymnastics Has Been Around for a Long Time Gymnastics has been around for thousands of years The ancient Greeks used the word to describe exercises However these exercises did not include the gymnastics events we know today Only tumbling and a type of jumping over objects took place in the ancient world Later people saw gymnastics as good exercise They taught the sport in schools It was also good training for war In 1813 Friedrich Ludwig Jahn opened a playground in Germany He used equipment such as the parallel bars and the pommel horse His goal was to build muscles in athletes Friedrich Ludwig Jahn’s playground in Berlin 1 4