Yet, sports were not altogether neglected: trainers, facilities and travel funds were amply provided by the Chinese government for sports like table tennis and gymnastics (both top individual and not team sports, interestingly) where the Chinese excelled.
In sports like gymnastics, diving and ice skating, motivated youngsters with an extensive coaching and support system peak in their teens.
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The earnings window for athletes in sports like gymnastics, track and field, wrestling, and figure skating is very small, both in terms of the number of athletes that will cash in as well as the length of time they have to cash in.
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The state should subsidise less popular sports like diving, gymnastics and weightlifting, China Daily quotes him as saying.
In another first, NBC Olympics Live Extra will provide multiple concurrent streams for select sports, such as gymnastics (each apparatus), track and field (each event), and tennis (up to five courts).
The first major scoring controversy of the London Games again highlighted the subjective nature of gymnastics, one of the few Olympic sports that rely on judges.
In sports like tennis, golf, gymnastics, and figure skating, kids are competing at the highest levels in their teenage years.
Most of the Olympic sports - fencing, synchronised swimming, gymnastics, water polo - are also unfamiliar to most Kenyans.
According to the guidelines, sports with the lowest concussion rates include gymnastics, baseball, softball, and volleyball while young women and girls who played soccer and basketball had the highest risk for sustaining a concussion.
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Others wondered how sports like equestrian and disciplines like race walking and rhythmic gymnastics survived.
Sports in the Games include basketball, swimming, tennis, cycling, gymnastics and many others.
Lilleshall is also the home to the national sports centres, and is the base for Britain's Olympic archery and gymnastics teams.
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And for sports for which multiple events are happening at the same time, such as gymnastics or track and field, the app also will provide concurrent streams to let you watch multiple events at the same time.
According to the study, which my colleague Susan Adams wrote up for FORBES, the careers of 840 American and British medal winners from seven different sports at the summer games (rowing, swimming, sailing, basketball, boxing, gymnastics, and track and field) were analyzed.
On March 19th and 20th, NCMEC is sponsoring a conference called Safe to Compete: Protecting Child Athletes from Sexual Abuse, where it will convene more than 50 youth-serving organizations, including the YMCA, Special Olympics, USA Swimming, USA Gymnastics, and Big Brothers Big Sisters of America to talk about the issue of preventing abuse of children in sports programs.
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The U.S. women's gymnastics team won its second gold medal ever, living up to its pre-tournament billing, which included a Sports Illustrated cover for the Olympic darlings.
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