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Safe and Fun Gymnastics

  In March when the coronavirus started gymnastics gyms all over the world shut down. Since gymnasts weren’t at the gym this caused some gymnasts to lose skills. A solution that many gyms had was to make gymnastics Zoom calls. On the Zoom call the coaches would have workouts for gymnasts to do so they could still train while staying healthy and safe at home.   Once a lot gyms started to open gymnasts got back to practicing but since the virus was still going on all of the gymnast still had to be careful. To stop the spread all gymnasts are supposed to wear masks and social distance during practice. Some think it can be hard to wear a mask while working out but in my opinion I don’t mind wearing a mask at practice because it keeps me safe and protected.  Because gymnasts are using the equipment they can spread germs to anyone else that uses the equipment. For example, if I did my beam routine on a beam and then someone else used the same beam, my germs might sprea...
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All About the Nastia Liukin Gymnastics Cup

       To start the host of the Nastia Liukin gymnastics cup is Nastia Liukin who is the 2008 olympic all-around gold medalist. In the cup Nastia will first greet and wish all of the gymnast a great meet! After Nastia greets all the gymnasts they start competing on these four events; Floor, vault, bars, and beam. Once every gymnast is done com peting in all of these events there is an award ceremony to decide who has won first place!            The host Nastia Liukin’s full name in Anastasia Liukin. She was born on October 30th, 1989 in Moscow, russa. She started gymnastics in 1993 when she was 4 and she first went to the Olympics in 2008 where she won 1st all-around. Nastia started gymnastics because her parents were gymnastics coaches and Nastia would always hang out in the gym with her parents.  The cup is held in different places and on different days each year around February-March. This year it will be held in t...