Dangers of Gymnastics Every sport is dangerous in some way. A sport that you need skills, strength, and dedication requiring training and commitment. Injuries occur on accidents, poor training, as well as improper conditioning. Gymnastics is usually geared toward females but is a male sport too. Participating in this sport could cause numerous amounts of injuries such as breaking of all bones and even death. Bars, beam, and floor are some events where the chances of getting injured are very high. Gymnastics is one of the oldest sports in the Olympian Games. The word gymnastics comes from the Greek word “gymnos”, which meant naked. There are three types of gymnast; artistic, rhythmic, and trampoline. Artistic gymnasts compete on four different events; uneven bars, balancing beam, vault, and floor. The males of gymnastics compete on floor, pommel horse, rings, vault, and parallel bars. Rhythmic gymnastics is a women sport only and the gymnasts perform on floor only. They use objects such as ropes, balls, ribbons, and hoops to perform. These gymnasts usually show more flexibility than artistic gymnast. There are also other gymnasts who performed strictly on trampolines. This form of gymnastics was first used in the 1800s but its competition did not start until the Sydney Games in 2000. The uneven bars are an event in gymnastics that is not only about strength, it involves a lot of techniques. Various skills can be life threatening such as the double layout dismount, the clear hip to handstand, and giants. When performing on the uneven bars your hands are the most important part. Some gymnast cannot handle the agonizing pain from working on bars, so these
