Why is trampoline an olympic sport

The first contains several special requirements, the second is a voluntary exercise. The scores from each are added together and the top eight advance to the final. In the final, no scores carry over and the athletes perform a second voluntary exercise. Medals are awarded to the top three scoring athletes.

The men use the same format. Trampoline gymnastics is the newest of gymnastics' three Olympic disciplines, having been added to the Olympic programme in at Sydney Since Beijing , the men's side of the sport has been dominated by the Chinese who have landed two on the podium in three straight Games.

Russia's Alexander Moskalenko won the sport's first men's title in China is still a force on the women's side, but MacLennan's back-to-back wins have kept them off the top step of the podium for 13 years. The name was invented from the Spanish word "El trampolin", meaning diving board.

The popularity of trampolining soon travelled throughout America, quickly being introduced into school PE programmes, but it was not until that it was used recreationally in schools in the United Kingdom. The sport had to wait a further 29 years for its first World Championships in London, in Since then, many more countries have started developing programmes. China's programme, in particular, developed World Champion athletes in less than a decade. Since those early years of the development of the sport, it has been used to train the United Navy Flight Scholars, who intend to become the pilots of the seals, navigators and explorers.

NASA uses it for astronaut training and for other competitive and thrilling recreational purposes. Trampolines have been welcomed in the United States as a physical training education program and has also found way into the private entertainment centers.

Owing to the increasing number of lawsuits related to the dangers and the injuries that come about in the sport, it has been relegated to the gymnasium, and only conducted by certified trainers. The glamour therefore associated with the sport has waned over time and has consequently led to the decline of the American prominence in the sport, unlike in the early years.

Since becoming an Olympic sport in , more countries have taken up the challenge and trained their personnel. China is an example; it trained its participants in less than a decade. Your email address will not be published. When did Trampolining Become an Olympic Sport? Presentation Of all the Gymnastics disciplines, Trampoline gymnasts get the biggest air, thrilling audiences with their high-flying exploits and fully living up to the Olympic motto of Citius, Altius, Fortius "Higher, Faster, Stronger".

Synchronised Trampoline. Double Mini-trampoline. How do judges calculate difficulty scores in Trampoline? Trampoline routine scores are based on difficulty, execution, horizontal displacement and time of flight. A high difficulty score hinges on the number of flips and twists a gymnast is able to pack into a single piece of air.