In 1924 in Munich he founded, with the German gymnast Dorothee Günther, the Günther School for gymnastics, dance, and music.
In 1819, after the murder of the German playwright August von Kotzebue by a Burschenschaft gymnast, the Prussian king Frederick William III closed approximately 100 gymnastics fields and centres in Prussia.
The events in rhythmic gymnastics are named for the hand apparatus employed by the gymnast: rope, hoop, ball, clubs, and ribbon.
Not only did the Romanian gymnast become the first athlete to score a perfect 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event, she also won gold medals for the balance beam, uneven bars, and the all-around individual competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
Women's pole vault final, 7pm Britain's best gymnast, Beth Tweddle ▲, is in the final of the uneven bars, and there will be familiar names in the velodrome as Team GB go for gold in the men's and women's sprint.
There was also good news for Welsh rhythmic gymnast Frankie Jones, who received the David Dixon award honouring one competitor's contribution based on their performance, fair play and contribution to their team.
Despite being almost a decade past prime gymnast age, and beset by serious injuries, she had kept training and competing because a fourth place at Beijing had left her heartbroken.
And of course, given that the woman with whom he is supposed to have had the love child is a former gymnast 30 years his junior, the baby and the bad back are by no means mutually exclusive.
One shows Nadia Comaneci, a gymnast, scoring a perfect 10.
Andre Illarionov, a former advisor of Mr Putin's, wrote in a blog post that a coup might be underway; a Swiss tabloid reported that Mr Putin had flown to Switzerland to attend the birth of a love child with a Russian gymnast.
One little gymnast says proudly that when she does cartwheels in the street, everyone praises her.The Macrocentro Independencia, as the centre is called, represents another way of fighting crime to that described in our article: it focuses on prevention rather than better policing.
