Popular science: How much do you know about the most beautiful sport—rhythmic gymnastics?

Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport that combines artistry, skill and grace.

As a beautiful art performance project, it combines dance, contortion and technical movements to interpret beautiful images with graceful body language, showing elegance, softness and strength. Rhythmic gymnastics attracts many audiences with its graceful movements and superb skills on the stage.

Rhythmic gymnastics competitions usually consist of two events: individual floor exercise and equipment gymnastics. Floor exercise focuses on the gracefulness and coherence of movements of the athletes, while apparatus gymnastics emphasizes the control and balance of the gymnastics equipment. During competition, athletes need to have excellent flexibility, coordination and endurance to complete a series of graceful movements and difficult skills.

The rhythmic gymnasts, who have received professional training since childhood, showed extraordinary grace and strength in the competition. Rhythmic gymnastics has become a high-profile international sports competition. In competitions such as the Olympic Games, World Championships and World Cup, athletes from all over the world have shown beautiful artistic gymnastics styles.