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Entertainment & Sports

Aug. 2, 2024

New gymnastics rules enhance the sport, but rule-makers have yet to stick the landing

The 2024 Paris Olympic Games have introduced significant changes in gymnastics rules, scoring, and judging, enhancing the sport's overall quality. However, limitations on the number of competitors advancing to the finals continue to impact the sport's integrity.

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The New York Times

Gymnastics in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games has been outstanding in part because rule making, scoring and judging are evolving in ways that mostly bring out the best. For example, the domination and separation of Simone Biles, the women's acknowledged "Greatest of all time" is both measured and enhanced by the much earlier, but still controversial, discarding of the 10-point scoring system. Associated mostly with Nadia Comăneci's uneven bars routine at the Montreal Games in 1976, the former...

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