After more than a week of watching Simone Biles and the rest of the U.S. women's gymnastics team in Rio, new gymnasts are taking over the floor mat in Rio.
They are competing in rhythmic gymnastics, and it looks completely different from artistic gymnastics, which is what Biles and the rest of the team competed in the past two weeks.
So what is rhythmic gymnastics?
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Think of it as variations of the floor exercises, but only for women. Men do not compete in rhythmic gymnastics.
Instead focusing on just strength and balance, rhythmic gymnasts focuses more on dance, ballet, artistic expression and apparatus manipulation. Routines also include the typical tumbling components of the floor exercises.
There is a team competition and an all-around individual competition at the Olympics.
The individual all-around event is made up of four routines involving different apparatuses. They are ball, hoop, clubs and ribbon. The gymnasts use the apparatuses to help express the message of their routines, and the object must stay in constant motion.
In the team competition, there is single apparatus and mixed apparatus events.
Rhythmic gymnastics is a relatively young sport in the Olympics. The individual competition was integrated into the games beginning in 1984 in Los Angeles. At the 1996 games in Atlanta, the team competition was added.
