Gymnastics – Sports Videos https://www.topendsports.com/videos Topend Sports videos Wed, 02 Sep 2020 10:57:56 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.6 40040165 Olympic Tumbler Rowland Wolfe https://www.topendsports.com/videos/sports/unusual/olympic-tumbler-rowland-wolfe/ https://www.topendsports.com/videos/sports/unusual/olympic-tumbler-rowland-wolfe/#respond Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:52:16 +0000 http://topendsports.com/videos/?p=76 Tumbling was a gymnastics event at the 1932 Olympic Games. Here is a video of the only Olympic Champion, Rowland "Flip" Wolfe of the United States, demonstrating some of his tumbling routines. His key move was the backflip with a double twist. He became the youngest ever male Olympic gymnastics champion – he was 17 years and 307 days old.

]]> https://www.topendsports.com/videos/sports/unusual/olympic-tumbler-rowland-wolfe/feed/ 0 76 1948 Ling Gymnastics Olympic Demonstration https://www.topendsports.com/videos/sports/gymnastics/1948-ling-gymnastics-olympic-demonstration/ https://www.topendsports.com/videos/sports/gymnastics/1948-ling-gymnastics-olympic-demonstration/#respond Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:32:41 +0000 http://topendsports.com/videos/?p=37 There was a Swedish Ling Gymnastics demonstration at the 1948 Olympic Games. Unfortunately, the video I had of it is no longer available. Here is another video of some Swedish women from the same year giving a demonstration. You can see where the opening ceremony has evolved from.

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