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- Rhythmic gymnastics is a form of gymnastics emphasizing dance-like rhythmic routines, accentuated by the use of clubs, balls, ribbons, or hoops.
- I do this sport as an individual and also in a group of five athlets.
- In competitions there is always a winner.
- To win you must get a lot of points, given to you by a panel of judges.
-  They judge  how you manage the tools, how you do pirouettes, leaps, balances and execution.
- Rhythmic gymnastics is a very difficult sport, in fact every gymnast must have a lot of different athlethic skills, such as flexibility of movements, strength, power, endurance, coordination and also a lot of psychological motivation.

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- We can trace the origins of free exercises and the use of small apparatus back to primitive people.
- Also in the tombs of the ancient Egyptians were found paintings of young girls exercising in a similar way to those still used today.
- The merit of Sparta and Athens is that they introduced exercises for women, with the specific purpose of developing strong mothers to generate strong children".
- The actual birth of gymnastics as an official sport was in the ninetheenth century, in fact the Soviet Union introduced it during polular and official occations.  FIG officially recognized the sport in 1961, which became Olympic sport in 1984.

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My favourite are: Yana Kudryavtseva, Margarita Mamun, Evgenija Kanaeva, Arina and Dina Averina, Hanna Ritzadinova and Melicina Stanjuta.
In my opinion, the best gymnast of all is Yana Kudryavtseva. I think she's really graceful and she has won four world competitions.

WHY I STARTED DOING RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS?
I began doing gymnastics because I live opposite the gym, so I saw every evening someone who was dancing there. One day I decided to join a class to see if I liked it.

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The principal word competitions of rhythmic gymnastics are the World Championship, organized every year and the European Championship; during this competition all the gymnasts show their new exercises and try to qualify them to the World Championship. These competitions can also last different days.
Gymnasts are classified in different groups, according to their age:
- first band students: if they are 8, 9 or 10 ;
- second band students:  if gymnasts are 11 or 12 ;
- junior first band: if they are 13 or 14;
- junior second band: if gymnasts are  14 or 15;
- senior: for gymnasts from 15 up.

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- I have been practising this sport three times a week since I was  six years old,  and I really love it.
- I love my sport because I feel beautiful emotions and also amazing physical sensations that sometimes make me believe I can fly. I feel like a butterfly, so light and graceful.
- Now it is part  of my life, I can't live without it.
- When I dance, I forget all my problems and I'm happy. I feel such a sense of freedom and lighteness in my body.
- I also like being in the gym with my friends and my trainers, they always support me in times of difficulty.
- I like training, working on my body and also on my emotions.
- I like all the tools, that feel part of my body now.
- If I manipulate a tool or simply dance, I feel more confident; I can also express all my emotions and free my mind ofevery problem.
- I also love all the different emotions that I feel before and during a competition. If I'll win the competition of the next week, I'll feel really proud of myself!
- I really recommend that you go to see a gymnastics competition